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    <title>Fatal crash, chemical spill causes I-40 closure near Forrest City</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-08T11:44:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FORREST CITY, Ark. (WMC) - Emergency crews are still working to clear a chemical spill on I-40 near Forrest City, Arkansas after a fatal accident Tuesday morning.

One person died in the crash.

The Arkansas Department of Transportation says the chemical is calcium carbide. It’s a flammable substance used to create acetylene gas in steel manufacturing and metal cutting, according to the New Jersey Department of Health Fact Sheet.

The cause of the accident remains unclear. We are working to learn more information from ARDOT.

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    <title>KP Middle School in Norfolk evacuated due to hazmat incident</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-23T09:33:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NORFOLK — Emergency crews took care of a potentially dangerous situation involving a chemical reaction Tuesday at King Philip Middle School.

No children were at the school at the time, but staff who were there preparing for the start of the school year were evacuated.

The incident started Tuesday morning when town building and fire department officials conducting the annual fire safety inspection noticed a chemical odor in the school’s science wing.

The odor was traced to a preparation room where chemicals are stored. Opening a cabinet, inspectors determined a reaction had taken place in a quart container of calcium carbide.

“The area was immediately sealed by closing doors to the classroom and a fire department response initiated,” Fire Chief Coleman Bushnell said.

The state Department of Fire Services’ Hazardous Materials Response Team was notified, but it was tied up at another school chemical incident in Rockland and wasn’t able to go to KP Middle for 1 1/2 hours.

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    <dc:date>2017-02-13T12:16:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two persons were killed and eight others injured today in a chemical factory blast in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The regional work safety administration said the explosion took place at one of the calcium carbide furnaces of the Yihua chemical plant.

The reason of the blast is yet to be ascertained.

The explosion in the plant in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture left two persons dead and three in serious condition. Five persons sustained minor injuries.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-10-21T15:13:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CEDAR RAPIDS — Pieces of pumpkin went flying into the air inside Thomas Commons at Cornell College Tuesday morning, grabbing the attention of students and faculty walking by.

That was the exact reaction the Cornell College Chemistry Club was looking for.

“I think if you tell people there’s going to be an explosion, people are going to come,” Cornell College Chemistry Club president Bethany King said.

The club decided to celebrate National Chemistry Week by using a chemical reaction to explode pumpkins. King said the group used a combination of Hydrogen Peroxide, Calcium Carbide and water. She said that combination produces flammable acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. After a minute, the group ignited the gas inside the pumpkin, causing a contained explosion.

King said securing faculty approval for the project wasn’t easy.

“I asked a lot of people on campus if I had permission to do it. I had to asks six people in our department, and then Cornell campus security.”

She said the group practiced with smaller explosions, eventually working their way up to the full explosion.]]></description>
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    <title>Firm in China Chemical Blast Skirted Safety Rules</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-19T13:32:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The recent blast in Tianjin port and other Chinese chemical plant accidents have prompted an overhaul of the country’s approach to safety amid accusations of corruption and mismanagement.

On 12 August, a warehouse in Tianjin erupted in an explosive blaze that killed dozens of people, and damaged and destroyed property. The warehouse had, among other things, been storing 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate and 500 tonnes of potassium nitrate, as well as 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide and large quantities of calcium carbide. The death toll from the explosion now stands at 165, including 99 firemen, 11 police and 55 civilians, with eight people still missing.

The clean-up operation is now almost complete with nearly all hazardous chemicals from the blast having been cleared. Nine air monitoring sites and seven of the nine water monitoring sites report no findings of toxic chemicals. Cyanides have been identified at the remaining two water monitoring sites, but the concentrations are below safety benchmarks.]]></description>
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    <title>Hazmat situation resolved at Kingsland, Ga. truck stop</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-03T11:20:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[KINGSLAND, Ga. — Crews from as far away as Naval Air Station Jacksonville responded to a hazmat situation at a truck stop in Kingsland, Georgia Wednesday night, officials told First Coast News.

Officials said calcium carbide residue, stored inside barrels on a flatbed truck, created fumes that were initially thought to be the result of a chemical leak. The situation shut down Petro Kingsland, a truck stop located in the 1100 block of East King Avenue off Interstate 95 South Exit 3.

Authorities did not order any evacuations connected to the exposure, but said they were concerned because the chemical is considered highly volatile, the mayor told First Coast News. Hazardous materials teams responded to the scene with nearly a dozen crews.  Authorities said the fumes were created when rain reacted with calcium carbide residue on the truck.

Hull's Environmental Services, based out of Jacksonville, cleaned up the scene around midnight Thursday.  Employees with Hull's told First Coast News they assessed the truck and truck bed and deemed everything was being transported properly.]]></description>
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    <title>As China Blast Toll Hits 50, Fears Mount Over Chemical Contamination</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-14T12:10:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An environmental expert says evacuation of the area around Wednesday’s mammoth warehouse blast in the Chinese port city of Tianjin is the “main priority,” and warned of the explosion’s long term consequences.

His words came as the death toll continued to rise, with at least 50 people dead and over 500 hospitalized, of which 71 are in critical condition, officials said Thursday. Several of the dead are reportedly firefighters.

“With a blast like this, normally you would expect the transport [of particulate matter] to be along the wind gradient or contours, but a blast this big must push it beyond that in the opposite direction,” Ravi Naidu, Director of the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation at the University of Newcastle Australia, told TIME. “Not just people but animals and other organisms would be exposed to certain chemicals.”

Rescue operations have been temporarily suspended while chemical teams scan the area for harmful materials as fears of airborne toxins mount.

“We are concerned that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin,” Greenpeace Asia’s Beijing office said to TIME in an emailed statement. “According to the Tianjin Tanggu Environmental Monitoring Station, hazardous chemicals [that may have been at the blast site] include sodium cyanide (NaCN), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and calcium carbide (CaC2), all of which pose direct threats to human health on contact. NaCN in particular is highly toxic. Ca(C2) and TDI react violently with water and reactive chemicals, with risk of explosion. This will present a challenge for firefighting and, with rain forecast for tomorrow, is a major hazard.”]]></description>
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    <title>UAA Science Building Reopened After Chemical Spill</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-31T12:32:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
A chemical spill in a science building at the University of Alaska Anchorage Wednesday prompted campus police to temporarily evacuate the facility, with local firefighters responding to the incident as a hazardous-materials call.

UAA officials say a lab worker in the ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, on 3101 Science Cir., knocked some calcium carbide -- which creates a flammable gas when it reacts with water -- into a laboratory drain at about 3:25 p.m.

AFD hazmat crews searched the building with detection equipment after it was evacuated, with students allowed back into the building just after 4:15 p.m. Dispatchers confirmed that fire crews had left the scene, with notes on the call saying the problem had been "mitigated."

University Police Department officials say the building was evacuated at about 3:30 p.m. for safety reasons, with no immediate estimate available on how many people were inside it at the time.]]></description>
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    <title>I-40 Reopened After Hazmat Truck Crash</title>
    <dc:date>2011-12-04T16:22:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[OKLAHOMA CITY -- A metro interstate is again open after a hazardous materials truck crash on Saturday afternoon.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, both I-40 westbound at Council Road and I-40 eastbound at the Kilpatrick Turnpike have been reopened.
Troopers said the spill happened about 1:30 p.m. Saturday when a truck carrying calcium carbide overturned, spilling its contents.
Trooper Betsy Randolph said, "The substance is highly flammable when wet."]]></description>
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    <title>Welding Supply fire blamed on damaged drums</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-15T11:22:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Albany fire investigators say the failure of a seal inside one or more drums of calcium carbide probably caused the fire at Industrial Welding Supply on Sunday night.
Fire Marshal Mike Trabue issued a report on the fire late Tuesday.
He said fire department investigators, with the cooperation of the company, had completed an investigation of the explosion and fire at the business, 3415 Pacific Blvd. S.W.
Responding to the alarm, firefireghters found a tarp-covered storage pile of flammable gas-producing calcium carbide in an outside storage yard on fire.
Investigators determined that one or more drums were most likely damaged during shipping, causing the seal for one or more drum lids to fail.]]></description>
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    <title>Chemical fire in Albany prompts evacuation; no injuries reported</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-13T16:56:47+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A chemical fire Sunday night at Industrial Welding and Supply in Albany prompted the closure of Pacific Boulevard and the evacuation of about 250 nearby residents, but firefighters got the blaze under control and no injuries were reported.
The Albany Fire Department responded to Industrial Welding and Supply, 3415 Pacific Blvd S.W. at about 10:24 p.m. Sunday to an explosion and flames reported by a 911 call.
Firefighters arrived within approximately four minutes and observed several small explosions and fire involving approximately 360 square feet of piled storage of unknown materials located outside the building.
Firefighters initially applied water to extinguish the fire; however, these efforts and a passing rain shower intensified the burning. Firefighters immediately ceased fire suppression efforts and backed away to a safe distance from the burning materials.
A representative from Industrial Welding and Supply responded to the scene and identified the burning material as 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of calcium carbide in 200 pound drums.
Calcium carbide is a grayish-black irregular lump solid material used to manufacture flammable acetylene gas. The acetylene gas, and a significant amount of heat, is created when the chemical comes in contact with moisture.]]></description>
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