State Police Crime Lab Evacuated for Chemical Spill
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By JAYETTE BOLINSKI STAFF WRITER  Employees at the Illinois State Police crime lab on Bruns Lane were evacuated Friday after someone broke a bottle of a hazardous chemical called acetonitrile.  Springfield firefighters were sent to the building about 3:20 p.m.
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By JOHN REID BLACKWELL  A state official tried to ease local residents' concerns about a controversial chemical found in water around DuPont's Spruance plant in Chesterfield County.
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Officials in Aiken County have received reports of deaths and injuries after two trains collided Thursday, spilling a hazardous chemical and sending dozens of people to decontamination sites.
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By Chris Conley, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 5--Two tanker cars that derailed and spilled a corrosive chemical on  Presidents Island this morning were pulled upright by about 1:30 p.m. and the  leaks sealed, Memphis Fire Department division chief Kenneth Reeves said.
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By HARVEY, Helen; WILSON, Nick  A man was injured and workers evacuated yesterday after a large amount of acid was spilled in the Toll Tranzlink building in Tremaine Avenue.   Fire Service personnel had to don "splash suits" to clear up the spill.
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An investigation is opened into a huge fire at a chemical plant in Crewe which sent smoke across the town.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 9--Shortly after noon today, police removed barricades from most streets surrounding the charred remnants of the Chemcentral Corp. plant in the East Bottoms.
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ISTANBUL - Police found a van packed with explosive chemicals in a multistory parking lot in central Ankara yesterday, according to the city's top official.
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Homes and business were ordered evacuated after an explosion Tuesday morning started a fire at a Wichita-area solvents plant, authorities said.
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A U.N. office was evacuated after workers found vials that may have contained the poison gas phosgene Thursday.
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A 10-story apartment block in Portugal was evacuated in the early hours forcing dozens of people out of their beds and onto the street, after a man stole the building's copper pipes, causing a gas leak, police said.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 16--An oil pipeline spill on Feb. 2 in Rusk County -- one of the largest such accidents of its kind in state history -- has been found to have contaminated the local water table, officials confirmed Thursday.
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Chemical vapor that accumulated inside a paint and ink factory fueled the huge explosion that leveled the building and damaging dozens of surrounding homes last fall, according to a preliminary conclusion by federal investigators.
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By Joanie Baker, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Feb. 16--The Daviess County Sheriff's Department completed training Thursday to use the container program offered by the Kentucky State Police that provides a disposal method for methamphetamine lab waste.
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An explosion Wednesday at a chemical plant shook windows, rattled doors and sent a thick plume of smoke over a section of Jacksonville. Police have cordoned off the area, closed highway exits to the site and are evacuating people.
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Police called to a suburban family's home encountered a stomach-churning scene: dozens of urine-filled bottles strewn amid animal feces, soiled toilet paper and trash piled several feet high.
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HACKNEY is to come under chemical attack today in a simulated exercise to test the emergency services. Hundreds of volunteers, who will pretend to be contaminated with an unknown toxic substance, will take part in the test disaster on Hackney Marshes.