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    <title>Kenilworth Volunteer Fire Department &amp; Rescue Squad Responds to Chemical Spill at Merck</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[KENILWORTH, NJ - Members of the Kenilworth Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad recently were dispatched and immediately rushed to Merck for a chemical spill.

Via their social media the following message was posted.

Engine 63, Squad 2, Truck 3, Rescue 3, Rescue 1, Car 3, and Car 2 all responded to find a bromine spill in a laboratory which also compromised several other containers of chemicals, one of which being a large metal container of ether. Union County Hazmat FMBA Local 99 was immediately requested to respond as well as neighboring towns for additional resources to the scene. Towns assisting with operations include Cranford Fire Department, Roselle Park Fire Department, and Garwood Fire Department. Merck Fire also responded to assist with the incident. Clark Fire Department, Union Fire Department and Roselle Fire Department responded for Fire Headquarters to cover the Borough while we operated at this incident. After approximately 8 hours on scene, a specialized team was able to contain and remove all chemicals and substances involved. There were no injuries sustained during this incident. Thank you to everyone involved for your assistance in handling this incident.

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cleaning out the corrosives cabinet isn’t many people’s favorite lab chore, but after finding this decomposing container of hydrobromic acid (HBr), Mark Olson was glad his group got around to it. Olson is a chemistry professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he researches soft matter, nanoscience, and supramolecular chemistry. Glass reagent bottles are sometimes shipped in steel cans like this, surrounded by padding. “I am not sure how long the bottle sat there,” he says. “It was sitting towards the back behind a much larger bottle of another substance, easily out of view. What became clear once we began to clean it up was that the bottle inside the unopened can had somehow ruptured and was leaking,” he says.
The brown material is iron bromide (FeBr2), a relatively benign substance that formed as the acid leaked and reacted with the steel container. And the cabinet was properly vented, Olson says. Nonetheless, Olson says, they carefully moved the whole mess into a fume hood, took it apart, and disposed of everything in appropriate hazardous and chemical waste containers. In this case, the can corroded from the inside out, Olson says, but because other chemicals in the corrosives cabinet react with steel, whoever took delivery should have opened the can and placed just the bottle of reagent in with the others. “Opening the can immediately after delivery to the lab might have shown that the bottle cap had failed,” he adds.
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    <title>UPL chemical disaster: Smoke plume's toxic cocktail of...</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-14T11:35:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Seven months after a chemical warehouse in Durban was set alight, residents finally have some answers about what chemicals they inhaled.

For months, residents of Durban have been pleading to know which toxic chemicals they were exposed to when the UPL chemical warehouse was set alight during the July 2021 unrest.

Now, finally, they have some answers.

The UPL warehouse in Cornubia was storing up to 19,000 tons of pesticides. At about midnight on 13 July 2021, the building was torched as part of the ongoing violence in KwaZulu-Natal.

In the days that followed, a toxic soup of chemicals flowed into the Ohlanga River, turning the Umhlanga Lagoon a luminous turquoise and killing thousands of fish. The fire also blanketed northern Durban in acrid smoke for more than a week, leaving residents struggling to breathe and with few answers about what was in the air.

Last week, the provincial government finally released an atmospheric impact report, commissioned as part of the mammoth clean-up of the chemical disaster.

The report, produced by Airshed Planning Professionals in Midrand, identifies 62 chemicals that were likely present in the smoke, the “most significant” being hydrogen cyanide, hydrochloric acid and bromine, as well as pollutants more commonly associated with coal power plants: SO2, NO2 and PM.

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    <dc:date>2020-12-03T11:25:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perishable items, if left long enough, can evolve into a potential hazard. This can happen with lab and home chemicals just as it happens with food. Fortunately, the principles and practices for preventing this are essentially the same for all of them.

A worker was cleaning and prepping a laboratory that had not been used in the last five years. This
included cleaning the chemical fume hood floor. While wiping this area, the worker noticed reddish-brown material on the Kimwipe . There was a one-gallon metal container similar to a paint can with
rust and brownish residue on its bottom (like a coffee cup ring) in the same hood and adjacent to the area the worker just wiped. Labeling on the metal container was corroded, too.

Out of sight often becomes out of mind which, left long enough, can become a potential hazard.

The metal container was an outer container for a bottle of liquid bromine, a legacy item no one paid attention to until this day. Liquid bromine is a corrosive chemical that can affect eyes, skin, and mucous membranes. Its vapors may cause anything from irritation to permanent injury, including burn and tissue destruction. Over time, the unused material diffused out of its inner glass container and corroded the outer metal container.]]></description>
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    <title>Beaver resident says chemical cloud 'so thick I couldn't see my hands on the steering wheel'</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-05T11:59:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER — Beaver resident Greg Muiter was in a convertible driving south on Route 65 when he encountered the chlorine and bromine cloud that enveloped the Rochester area following a second chemical reaction on July 13.

“To say it was thick would be an understatement,” he told Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials during a sparsely attended public hearing at the Rochester Borough Municipal Building on Wednesday. “It was so thick I couldn’t see my hands on the steering wheel.”

Muiter said he started shaking and his arms went numb. He called 911, but did not receive any help so he continued driving to his destination in Sewickley, where he collapsed and was rushed to UPMC Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment.

Muiter came to the hearing to learn what type of bromine was in the cloud that affected his health almost immediately after driving through it.

Fallston resident Conrad Bianco was the only other person to speak at the hearing, asking about the decision to close the Beaver Valley Bowl building next to the chemical leak. Bianco performs with the Cellar Dwellers improvisational comedy group, which held a show in the Bowl building on Aug. 9 only to be subsequently told that nobody was allowed inside.]]></description>
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    <title>2 Workers Injured in Texas Chemical Plant Fire</title>
    <dc:date>2018-07-10T09:27:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two workers were injured in a fire early Monday morning at the Fritz Industries chemical plant in Mesquite, TX, local news organizations reported.

Firefighters made their way to the facility at about 1 a.m., discovering the blaze in a warehouse at the chemical manufacturing facility. Employees were told to evacuate the plant over loudspeakers after the fire started. A hazardous materials (HAZMAT) team also responded to the site.

The presence of bomide and sodium bromine at the Fritz Industries site forced crews to approach the fire from a defensive stance, officials told the Dallas Morning News. First responders later blocked off access to the plant for a half-mile radius.

Two workers received injuries during the incident, and were transported to an area hospital for treatment. The fire’s cause remains undetermined.]]></description>
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    <title>Kamo High school in Northland evacuated after chemical spill</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-23T12:37:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Northland school has been evacuated after a chemical spill during a science class.

Science students at Kamo High School noticed fumes leaking out of a resource cupboard during class on Friday morning, a spokesman for Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) said. 

Their teacher opened the cupboard to find 55 grams of sodium bromide had spilled out of its container and reacted with something to produce the fumes, the spokesman said. 

All students in the school were evacuated.

One Hazmat unit and three fire trucks were still at the scene at 1pm. 

Bromine gas can cause coughing, irritation, burns and serious lung problems from long-term exposure.

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    <title>West Memphis crews respond to leak at former chemical plant</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-19T13:06:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — A chemical leak forced West Memphis fire officials to evacuate several businesses shortly after noon Thursday.

West Memphis Fire Department responded to a possible bromine leak at the former Diaz Chemical Company on Wyanoke Road off Port Road.

Hazardous Materials crews say they saw a brownish-red colored cloud at the back of the property when they arrived. They sent a drone up to investigate.

Diaz Chemical Company has been out of business since approximately 2008, fire officials said, but a private chemical disposal company was at the site attempting to remove old tanks.

Bromine is a toxic chemical used in agricultural chemicals, dyes, insecticides and pharmaceuticals.
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    <title>Students hospitalised after science experiment goes wrong</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-29T12:37:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dozens of classrooms at Concord High School have been evacuated and several students hospitalised following a science experiment gone wrong.

It is understood that the experiment, which was performed by Year 12 students in another classroom, was being conducted in a fume cabinet using drops of Bromine water mixed with Hexane and Hexine.

Students in another classroom began complaining of dizziness and respiratory problems, prompting the school to contact NSW Ambulance and NSW Fire and Rescue Services.

Six ambulance units and two NSW Fire and Rescue Hazardous Materials units subsequently responded to the incident, which took place shortly before 10.15am this morning.

A NSW Ambulance spokesman said one Year 8 student was transported to Auburn Hospital in a stable condition and that five more were taken to Westmead Children’s hospital for further assessment.

“The issue was due to exposure to bromine water, which we understand to be a chemical irritant that can cause irritation to breathing,” the spokesman told The Educator.
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    <title>Chemical explosion at Auckland high school</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-06T12:24:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/319755/chemical-explosion-at-auckland-high-school</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Westlake Boys High School in Auckland has been evacuated after a chemical explosion in one of its laboratories.

Firefighters were called to the school shortly after 2pm after a jar of bromine exploded.

Fire Service shift manager Jaron Phillips said the chemicals had now been isolated inside a hazardous materials drum.

Fire crews were still at the scene, including a hazardous materials unit, which was decontaminating the area and airing the building.

Mr Phillips said there were no reports of injuries.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.dailynews.com/business/20161122/small-chemical-leak-at-aliso-canyon-facility-dissipated-quickly-socalgas-says">
    <title>Small chemical leak at Aliso Canyon facility ‘dissipated quickly,’ SoCalGas says</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-23T11:15:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A “small chemical release” caused by a malfunctioning tool at Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility on Monday prompted the temporary evacuation of six contractors but no injuries were reported, according to state emergency and Gas. Co. officials.

Up to one cubic feet or about 7 gallons of bromine trifluoride, which is a pungent smelling and hazardous chemical, was released as vapor at the site of a natural gas well that was being inspected as part of a state-mandated comprehensive safety review, SoCalGas spokesman Chris Gilbride said Tuesday.

The chemical, a cutting agent akin to “chemical scissors,” was being used to cut an unidentified underground well’s inner tubing that was being removed and replaced as part of the inspection process of 114 natural gas wells at the SoCalGas facility above Porter Ranch. That process was triggered by a massive, nearly four-month natural gas leak that was detected in October of last year, officials said.

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    <title>Building evacuated as a precaution after chemical release in Boston – Boston News, Weather, Sports</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-09T13:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Multiple emergency crews were on the scene of a chemical release on High Street in Boston.

The 32-story high-rise building at 99 High Street was evacuated as a precaution as Haz-Mat teams worked with property managers.

The initial belief was a chemical spill on the 18th floor of the building. Upon further review, it was not a spill but a release of bromine, which is used in water treatment.

The release happened in the mechanical room, and a ventilation system caused the odor to be detected on several other floors, according to the Boston Fire Department.

The fire department said the building ventilation system was shut down, and a separate ventilation system was used to clear the rooms affected.

The chemicals Glutaraldehyde and Sodium Hydroxide were mixed with the bromine, causing a reaction during the filling process.

Boston EMS says three people were transported to area hospitals – one to Tufts and two to MGH. Those transported had non-life-threatening injuries.

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    <title>Albemarle Corporation says Magnolia South Plant bromine leak contained</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-04T11:21:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Albemarle Corporation said that a bromine leak at its Magnolia South plant was contained as of 9 p.m. Sunday.
A chemical leak was reported about 5:30 p.m. at Albemarle’s plant off U.S. 79 south of Magnolia. A nearby resident said she heard the plant's alert sirens go off.
Albemarle Corporation issued the following statement:
“The release has been contained on site. All employees have been accounted for and there have been no injuries as a result of the incident.
“’Our emergency response team has successfully secured the leak and is working to complete our mitigation procedures for the released material,’ said Peggy Matherne, Magnolia site manager. ‘We are also investigating the cause of the incident and amount of bromine that has been released.’
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    <title>EMCS evacuated after stink fills school</title>
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    <link>http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/news/229759611.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...
Just around lunch time, a science experiment went horribly awry at Edward Milne community school. A chemical smell, that emanated from the science wing, quickly spread throughout the halls, prompting an evacuation of the building.

“Everyone is fine,” said principal Patrick Swinburnson, standing in the midst of students in the sports field behind the building, a half hour after the evacuation.

“We had a science experiment that got carried away.”

EMCS student Alex Thurlborn posted on the Sooke News Mirror Facebook page stating, “it was fumes from a chemical experiment, that the chemistry 11 class that I happen to be in was doing an experiment bromine and aluminum foil. The fumes somehow got into the air ventilation I suppose and went through the school.”

The emergency evacuation was a good test of their procedures. Teachers exited the building with class lists in hand, and students used cell phones to notify their parents. According to Swinburnson, 70 per cent of the students were released within the first hour of the evacuation, and the remaining students — including those from Port Renfrew — went to Journey middle school.

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    <title>Hazmat team clears accidental chemical mix in Columbia</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-23T12:00:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/columbia/ph-hazmat-team-clears-accidental-chemical-mix-in-columbia-20130522,0,6138930.story</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services hazardous materials team cleared a potentially hazard chemical mixture Wednesday morning caused by a cleaning crew at the Columbia Athletic Club. 

According to a department spokesman, the crew was dispatched to the 5400 block of Beaverkill Road in Columbia at 8:35 a.m. after members of the cleaning crew accidentally mixed Bromine and "Simple Green," an all-purpose cleaner.

The spokesman said the accidental mixture caused a red smoke, which was inhaled by one of the cleaning employees. 

The employee was taken to Howard County General Hospital as a precaution, according to the spokesman.

The incident caused a road closure for over an hour. The incident was cleared by 10:09 a.m., according to the department'sTwitter account.

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    <title>Chlorine Trifluoride: Some Empirical Findings. In the Pipeline:</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-20T15:13:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/05/chlorine_trifluoride_some_empirical_findings.php</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've probably had more hits on my "Sand Won't Save You This Time" post than on any other single one on the site. That details the fun you can have with chloride trifluoride, and believe me, it continues (along with its neighbor, bromine trifluoride) to be on the "Things I Won't Work With" list. The only time I see either of them in the synthetic chemistry literature is when a paper by Shlomo Rozen pops up (for example), but despite his efforts on its behalf, I still won't touch the stuff.

And if anyone needs any more proof as to why, I present this video, made at some point by some French lunatics. You may observe the mild reactivity of this gentle substance as it encounters various common laboratory materials, and draw your own conclusions. We have Plexiglas, a rubber glove, clean leather, not-so-clean leather, a gas mask, a piece of wood, and a wet glove. Some of this, under ordinary circumstances, might be considered protective equipment. But not here.

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<dc:subject>laboratory follow-up response bromine</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;sid=24343639">
    <title>Crews respond to chemical fire in Murray</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-10T15:48:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&amp;sid=24343639</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MURRAY — A chemical fire damaged a laboratory of a chemical company Saturday.

Saturday afternoon, around 1 p.m., an employee of Chemtech-Ford arrived to work at 6100 South and Stratler Street in Murray. Upon entering a laboratory of the building, she discovered the room filled with smoke.

The company had been cooking about 8 liters of acid overnight to make bromine. The acid combusted, causing a small chemical fire.

"His cooking appliance he was using to cook these acids to make the final product overheated and I believe it started in the thermostat. It overheated and actually caught the counter top on fire," said Deputy Fire Marshall Russ Groves of the Murray City Fire Department.

She began ventilating the room before she left, alerting her boss and officials to the fire.

Officials reported a couple other people being the building, but they were quickly evacuated. They were uninjured.

Murray Fire Department responded to the blaze. At one point, however, firefighters were called out of the building due to the toxicity of the smoke.

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    <title>Two Treated After Chemical Spill At Quinnipiac University</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-20T11:34:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.courant.com/community/north-haven/hc-quinnipiac-spill-0920-20120919,0,3615851.story</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two people were taken to a hospital Wednesday after gas was released into the air during a chemical spill at Quinnipiac University's North Haven Campus, a university spokesman said.

The two people, both employees of Blue Cross and Blue Shield, were taken to MidState Medical Center in Meriden for treatment of eye and throat irritations, officials said. They reportedly were working in building four on a floor above the spill.

The spill was contained to the maintenance area of the building.

The spill was reported after 1 p.m. at the North Haven campus, 370 Bassett Road, which houses the school of Health Sciences, Nursing and Education. The leak was connected to a delivery, earlier in the day, of bromine, a chemical used for a water treatment system, fire officials said.

"The cause of the [chemical] cloud was apparently a chemical reaction in a shipment of bromine — an acidic chemical," the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said in a written statement.

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    <title>School evacuated after Bromine leak – Ulster Herald</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-24T11:04:35+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Six members of staff at an Omagh college were hospitalised after a classroom chemical spill sparked an evacuation of the school building.

Fire Crews were called to Drumragh Integrated College on the Crevenagh Road just before 1pm on Thursday after bromine was found to have leaked from a container in a science lab. According to school principal Nigel Frith, the bottle containing the hazardous chemical may have been deteriorating for a number of week during the school’s summer closure.

“I know very little about Bromine, but I know it’s strong stuff and you’re not supposed to be exposed to it or breathe it in,” he told the Tyrone Herald.

“Obviously that raised an alert, we contacted the Western Education and Library Board Health and Safety department for advice and they advised that we contact the Fire Service, which we did.

“They came and sealed off part of the building, but the more the fumes spread through the corridors, the more of the building was sealed off. In the end they said as a precaution it’s probably better if we just evacuate.”

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    <title>Bromine Leak At Lisle Corporate Offices Deemed Nontoxic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-06T19:55:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wednesday's chemical leak at a corporate office in Lisle on Warrenville road is not deemed hazardous, according to Lisle-Woodridge Fire officials. Fire Department Bureau Chief Jim French likened the bromine in the leak to a pool chemical. 

A pump failure occurred around 8 a.m. in the building's mechanical room. The failing equipment pumps water with bromine tablets throughout the entire corporate office. The pump failure led to a leakage, which created a light smoke that triggered the buildings fire alarms shortly after 8 a.m. 


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    <title>Chemical leak in Walbottle Campus classroom</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-24T12:51:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2012/02/23/chemical-leak-in-walbottle-campus-classroom-72703-30392262/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
A CHEMICAL leak during a classroom accident sparked fears over the health of two Tyneside students.

A sixth form class at Walbottle Campus in Newcastle, was conducting an experiment when a student dropped a container of the toxic substance, bromine.

The chemical, which smells like bleach, is poisonous and can cause breathing problems, coughing fits, headaches, dizziness and vomiting.

It was feared two students, a lab assistant and a teacher, who were nearest the spillage, had inhaled the fumes.

Paramedics were called out to the school immediately after the incident at about noon.

The remaining seven students in the class were checked over on the spot and given the all-clear.]]></description>
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    <title>Minor chemical accident at Grove Academy</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-28T13:36:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guideandgazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/minor_chemical_accident_at_grove_academy_1_2079630</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WHAT was described as a ‘minor’ chemical accident at Grove Academy on Friday morning led to eight pupils and a teacher being taken to Ninewells Hospital.

The incident took place within a science laboratory at the Broughty Ferry secondary school.

The exact circumstances surrounding what occurred are not known but it believed that the chemical bromine was involved.]]></description>
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    <title>Hazardous Chemical Evacuates Business</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-18T13:14:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Employees at a Grand Junction recycling business inadvertently cut into a pipe containing a chemical called Bromine Trifluoride. The chemical caught fire inside the pipe and caused employees to evacuate the business on Wednesday afternoon.
The incident took place at Pacific Steel and Recycling, located at 2365 River Rd.
Employees were recycling some metal pipe when when the chemical fire occurred. According to officials, the chemical Bromine Trifluoride is commonly used in oil field work to help drill through hard materials.
The Grand Junction Fire Department says that because the smoke from the fire is a respiratory irritant, the business' yard, which is about 20-acres, had to be evacuated, including the 30 employees who were working there at the time.]]></description>
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    <title>Wellington High technician inhales chemical</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-15T13:07:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Wellington High School staff member has been taken to hospital after inhaling a chemical in a science lab.

An ambulance spokesman said police, ambulance and fire engines all attended the callout this morning about 9.30am.

A female lab technician was taken to hospital in a moderate condition.

Principal Prue Kelly said the accident happened when the technician was preparing a lab for classes before school.

"She broke a container of bromine, and would have inhaled a couple of mouthfuls before she was able to step away. She got a bit of a shock I think."

No pupils were in the lab at the time of the accident.

Breathing in bromine can cause respiratory problems, irritation, dizziness and headaches. It can also cause skin irritation and burns.

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<dc:subject>New Zealand laboratory release injury bromine</dc:subject>
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    <title>Emission of sharp smell causes panic among students</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-21T15:03:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[By Maryam Khalfan - MUSCAT – In unfamiliar incident, an emission of a sharp smell resulting from a chemical reaction emitted smoke and a sharp smell in one of the chemistry laboratories on the main building of one of the schools in Seeb activated an emergency alert causing panic among students last week, it is learnt.
The incident occurred when the laboratory technician was preparing Bromine water for an experimental exercise before the students could proceed for the lesson that is part of the Ministry of Education’s (MoE) grade 11 syllabus in bilingual schools.
The reaction of the solution changed from its liquid to gas state and emitted a smoke like fume, which was sensored by one of the smoke detectors equipped in the laboratory and other susceptible and select areas of the school.
Automatically, the smoke detector activated the alarm bells in the corridors of the school for students to vacate to safety. Immediately, all the teachers confirmed that it was not a false call and instantly guided and instructed the students to safely proceed to the assembly point within moments of the incident.
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    <title>Fire crews from three cities respond to chemical spill in Monterey Park computer chip factory - Pasadena Star-News</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-16T11:18:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_17618259</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MONTEREY PARK - A hazardous chemical spill in a computer chip factory early Tuesday morning required fire crews from three cities to clean it up, but no one was injured in the incident.
Monterey Park fire Capt. Matt Hallock said the fire department was notified of an alarm at Kotura, 2630 Corporate Place, about 3:30 a.m.

“When they arrived, they saw a chemical haze inside building and immediately called hazmat,” Hallock said.

The response included all remaining fire crews from Monterey Park and hazmat teams from Glendale and Burbank, which Hallock said are better equipped for these types of incidents.

The spill was determined to consist of ammonia and hydrogen bromide, both of which can burn the lungs if inhaled, but the crews were able to clean it up in about four hours.

Hallock said the cause of the leak has not yet been determined.

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    <title>Bromine Gas Leakage in Tamil Nadu</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-10T12:44:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[a chemical factory ‘Shasun Chemicals and Drugs Limited’ at SPICOT Industrial Estate, Tamil Nadu has lead to the hospitalization of more than 120 people. Fire broke out at the stores of the factory where chemical bromine and hydrochloric acid had been stocked, leading to poisonous fumes emanating from the unit on Monday night. Fire brigade personnel neutralized the gas using carbonated water.]]></description>
<dc:subject>India industrial fire injuries bromine</dc:subject>
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    <title>Building evacuated at Sam Houston State University due to chemical spill | abc13.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-16T11:34:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, TX (KTRK) -- Officials at Sam Houston State University evacuated the chemistry and forensic science building due to a chemical spill in the building.

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A spokesperson for the university said that shortly before 8am Tuesday a bottle of bromine was knocked over as students were preparing to do a lab in the building. The bromine is in liquid form, but turns to gas rather quickly.
The building's safety officer was notified and they went through standard procedure and evacuated the building.
Huntsville Fire Department's Hazmat team cleaned up the spill and will continue to monitor the air.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_tx laboratory higher_ed spill bromine</dc:subject>
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    <title>Police: Leak reported at Adrian chemical facility | 13abc.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-25T12:36:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Adrian, MI (WTVG) -- A potentially deadly chemical leak caused quite a commotion today in Adrian.

Two people were rushed to the hospital, a neighborhood was ordered to stay inside with the windows closed, and schools were delayed.

It happened at Bio-Lab, a chemical making plant in Adrian, Michigan

Bromine, used to make swimming pool chemicals, polluted the air. Adrian fire chief Paul Trinka said the chemical can be deadly "at a high enough concerntration." Fortunately, levels weren't high enough to cause death.

Bio-Lab manager John Poelstra says the bromine released was "a very small amount, but bromine has very high warning properties. So despite being such a small amount of material, it is detectable."

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<item rdf:about="http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20100916/NEWS01/9160323">
    <title>X-ray film chemical blamed for evacuation | thedailyjournal.com | The Daily Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-17T11:56:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[VINELAND -- A chemical used in developing X-ray film caused the odor that led to an evacuation Sept. 8 at a medical office building, according to the city Fire Department.

The bromine-based chemical spilled in a storage closet in the building, part of the former Newcomb Hospital campus at State Street and Chestnut Avenue.

Fire Chief Robert Pagnini said the chemical is injected from canisters into a water treatment system.

A supply of the chemical was found once the building was vented enough for a thorough search, he said.

Bromine is reddish-brown liquid that emits a brownish vapor at room temperatures. It is a germicide, but also is useful in treating film.

Paul Simon, a South Jersey Healthcare spokesman, said the bromine was in use in an X-ray facility. Like chlorine, he said, it can irritate the respiratory system or skin if someone is exposed to it.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_nj leak response bromine</dc:subject>
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    <title>us_wa: UW chemistry building evacuated, Haz-Mat team called</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University of Washington chemistry building was evacuated early Thursday afternoon after students felt ill from vapors.
"There was no spill or leak, but there were three people exposed," department spokesman Helen Fitzpatrick said.
No students were being taken to hospitals, according to fire officials.
Fitzpatrick said the three students were alert shortly after the incident.
The incident sent dozens of students wearing white lab coats into the street.
Fire crews at the scene said the incident involved bromine, a liquid that can be volatile at room temperature. Bromine vapors are toxic.
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