The Associated Press RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Prosecutors say large amounts of chemicals commonly used for making bombs and explosive devices have been found at the home of an unemployed northern New Jersey doctor. Sixty-year-old Roberto Rivera, of Ridgewood, faces several charges, including possession of a destructive device and recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury. His bail was set at $1 ...
Hazmat call reveals bomb-making lab
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Firefighters contain factory fire
ABC Premium News MELBOURNE, Australia — Firefighters have averted a major blaze in inner Melbourne that broke out in a factory around 10:30 p.m. (AEDT) last night. The flames were being fed by a gas furnace and there was 10,000 litres of oil nearby. Firefighters managed to put out the Richmond blaze before it reached the oil. Meanwhile, firefighters discovered a cannabis crop while battling a ...
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Fire helicopter soaks firefighters in sewage
By David Moye The Huffington Post PORT MACQUARIE, Australia — Firefighters face enough crap on the job without getting drenched in raw sewage. That's what happened to 29 firefighters in rural Australia after a water-bombing helicopter mistakenly sprayed partially-treated sewage onto them while they were battling a blaze near the city of Port Macquarie, according to the Sydney Morning Herald ...
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Hazardous material not to be sold in United States
By Tracie Cone The Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. — The maker of the controversial pesticide methyl iodide, used primarily to fumigate strawberries, has agreed to remove all of its products from the U.S. market and end sales permanently. The U.S. EPA announced Wednesday that Arysta had requested voluntarily cancellation of all of the company's product registrations, which means that the suspected ...
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Gas explosion injures 18, including 9 firefighters
Bu Susan Haigh The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Dozens of building inspectors began assessing homes and businesses in one of New England's biggest cities on Saturday, a day after a natural gas explosion leveled a strip club located next to a day care and heavily damaged a dozen other structures. The blast injured 18 people, many of them first responders. Investigators were trying ...
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Derailment sends chemical tank cars into NJ creek
By Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press PAULSBORO, N.J. — People in three southern New Jersey towns were told Friday to stay inside after a freight train derailed and several tanker cars carrying hazardous materials toppled from a bridge and into a creek. Emergency management officials issued the advisory to residents of Paulsboro, West Deptford and East Greenwich Township as a precaution. At ...
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6 million pounds of explosives found, town evacuated
By Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A town in northwest Louisiana was being evacuated and state police were starting a criminal investigation of a company after finding about 6 million pounds of explosive material used in howitzers they say was stored illegally. Boxes and small barrels of the M6 artillery propellant were found both outdoors and crammed into unauthorized buildings ...
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Tenn. refinery worker dies after chemical exposure
By Adrian Sainz The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An oil refinery worker has died after being exposed to propane and acid at a Valero plant in Memphis. He is the second person to die this year from an on-the-job injury at the plant. The plant has been cited for violations related to the safe handling and control of hazardous energy and chemicals. Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke says ...
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Firefighters evacuate factory after hazmat incident
By Kevin Swayze The Guelph Mercury WATERLOO, Canada — Eight people were taken to hospital after a suspected formaldehyde gas leak at a Waterloo auto parts factory Monday morning. In all, 40 people were assessed by Waterloo Region paramedics outside of Ultra Manufacturing. Four people were sent to hospital by taxi before paramedics arrived, said John Prno, director of regional emergency medical ...
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Classroom assignment prompts firefighters, hazmat visit
By Laura C. Morel Tampa Bay Times SEMINOLE, Fla. — A Seminole High chemistry assignment triggers a lockdown and a visit by firefighters and a hazmat team. It started as a simple chemistry assignment. Students were to bring to class an item representing an element of the periodic table. Some brought aluminum foil, salt and water. But some brought sodium, lithium and even mercury. As a precaution ...
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US Rep wants tighter rules after train derailment set off hazmat incident
By Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press PAULSBORO, N.J. — Federal regulations require inspections of rail bridges and other freight train-line infrastructure and reports on accidents, but leave it to rail line owners to do it themselves. After a derailment that released thousands of gallons of a hazardous chemical into the air last week in New Jersey, forcing more than 200 households to be evacuated ...
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Firefighters injured, discover meth lab at condo fire
By Shannon McFarland The Sarasota Herald Tribune SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Mildred Lentini, 92, has lived in the Lido Regency Condominium for 20 years. She and other residents of the beachfront condo a few blocks from St. Armands Circle would hardly expect a forced evacuation because of a fire from a suspected methamphetamine lab in their building. But Lentini, who needs a wheelchair, found herself ...
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Scientists embark on study to learn why firefighters have heart attacks
By Craig Brown The Scotsman EDINBURG, Scotland — Scientists are to investigate why firefighters are more at risk from heart attacks than any other emergency service workers. • Scientists to investigate why firefighters at higher risk of heart attacks than other emergency service workers • Firefighters far more likely to suffer heart attack than smokers' Statistics have shown that ...
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More meth labs showing up in cities, suburbs
By Jim Salter The Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Methamphetamine lab seizures are on the rise in the nation's cities and suburbs, raising new concerns about a lethal drug that has long been the scourge of rural America. Data and interviews from an investigation by The Associated Press found growing numbers of meth lab seizures in cities such as St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Nashville, Tenn ...
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Longer, more frequent oil trains increase risk
By Matthew Brown and Josh Funk The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — Energy companies behind the oil boom on the Northern Plains are increasingly turning to an industrial-age workhorse — the locomotive — to move their crude to refineries across the U.S., as plans for new pipelines stall and existing lines can't keep up with demand. Delivering oil thousands of miles by rail from ...
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Ground Zero volunteers face long road to compensation
By Anemona Hartocollis The Record-Journal NEW YORK — On the day the terrorists flew into the World Trade Center, the Wu-Tang Clan canceled its meeting with a record mixer named Richard Oliver, so Oliver rushed downtown from his Hell's Kitchen apartment to help out. He said he spent three sleepless days at Ground Zero, tossing body bags. "Then I went home, ate, crashed, woke up," ...
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Son still blames toxic oil used in training fires for cancer that killed firefighter father
By Tim Prudente The Maryland Gazette ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, W. Va. — Ask Charlie Parks about his friend and fellow firefighter, David E. Fowler, and the words come out in rush: tireless, dedicated. Consider the 1979 house fire, three-alarm, in Severna Park. Flames screamed from the basement, the windows — the whole house engulfed. Firefighters worked more than two hours. Some sat exhausted ...
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Tenn. company has chemical scare
The Daily Times LOUISVILLE, Tenn. — Employees at a Louisville business were victims of a chemical scare Friday after several packages arrived covered with a suspicious white substance. The Alcoa Fire Department responded to Northgate RV, 3332 Wrights Ferry Road, at 11:43 a.m. after several employees began experiencing a bitter taste in the back of the throat. Fortunately, the substance turned ...
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Second Boeing 787 has emergency, leaks 40 gallons of fuel
The Associated Press BOSTON — Officials at Boston's Logan International Airport say crews have contained a fuel leak from an outbound Japan Airlines flight to Tokyo, marking the second time in two days that JAL planes at Logan reported problems. Massachusetts Port Authority spokesman Richard Walsh said the Boeing 787 was towed back to the gate Tuesday after about 40 gallons of fuel spilled ...
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Fire officials unsure when residents may return after mass evacuation
By Ethan Forman The Salem News BEVERLY, Mass. — Fire and safety officials can’t say when Twin Oaks Care and Rehabilitation Center at 93 Locust St. will reopen after a sewer backup caused the evacuation of all 94 residents on Sunday. In all, 93 residents, some of whom were elderly and frail, including some with tracheostomy or feeding tubes, were transported safely by Lyons and LifeLine ambulance ...
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