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    <title>Cyanide spill at Port of Brisbane</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-02T11:35:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A berth at the Port of Brisbane remains in lockdown after sodium cyanide spilt from two damaged shipping containers.
The incident occurred about 8am on Wednesday and has resulted in a 200m exclusion zone being constructed around one of the berths.

A Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) spokeswoman said scientists had determined the chemicals and the berth remained cordoned off.
About a dozen QFES emergency vehicles attended the site as a precautionary measure, she said.
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    <title>Chemical barrels found at oil palm plantation moved for disposal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-06T11:30:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[KUANTAN: All 15 barrels containing solid sodium cyanide found at an oil palm plantation in Karak, Bentong here on Thursday, have been moved to a safe location before being disposed of properly.

Pahang Tourism, Environment, Plantations and Biotechnology Committee chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Sharkar Shamsuddin said the transfer operation was carried out on Sunday by a contractor with expertise in the field.

The transfer process, according to Mohd Sharkar, was closely supervised by the Pahang Department of Environment (DoE), police, firefighters and representatives from the Bentong District and Land Office to avoid untoward incidents.

“There were no spills or leakages of the chemical during the transfer. All the barrels were closed and kept neatly covered from the day they were found until being moved.]]></description>
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    <title>State sues Shrewsbury man over shed demolition blast that released toxins</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-02T11:36:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Shrewsbury man has been sued for illegally demolishing a backyard shed containing dynamite, causing a hazardous fire and explosion in the fall of 2016, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Wednesday.

On Oct. 24, 2016, Edgar Muntz Jr. directed P&M Asphalt Services Inc. of Sutton to demolish an old wooden shed at 393 Oak St. and to remove the construction and demolition debris from the property. Mr. Muntz, who lives at 10 Grove Meadow Lane, owned the 393 Oak St. property as trustee of 393 Oak Street Realty Trust.

Inside the shed were about 550 glass jars and other containers holding hazardous materials, including dynamite, hydrofluoric acid, mercury, sodium cyanide, arsenic, chloroform, toluene, and chromium, according to a complaint filed by the attorney general’s office in Suffolk Superior Court.

During demolition the shed caught fire, releasing hazardous materials to the air and soil, according to the attorney general’s office. The fumes caused P&M workers and a neighbor to suffer chest, throat, and respiratory discomfort, the lawsuit says.

After a neighbor alerted authorities to the explosion, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, along with other state and local agencies, took remedial action to secure the site and clean up the hazardous materials.

P&M workers previously had knocked down a house on the property. They backfilled the cellar hole of the demolished house using soil mixed with debris from the shed. That debris included jugs and plastic containers, some labeled “Poison,” that held bright multicolored powders, some of which were spilling out of cracked and broken containers, the lawsuit says.

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    <title>Firefighter respond to Kewdale chemical spill</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-15T11:30:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SEVEN fire crews have raced to the scene of a chemical spill in Kewdale.

Sodium cyanide was inside a train carriage near the Kewdale Freight Terminal when the spill happened shortly after 4.30pm.

Some of the chemicals, which were packaged in house brick sizes, mixed with water at Fenton Street.

Two firefighters in full chemical suits are being sent into the container to assess the spill.

It remains unclear if the chemical outside of the carriage is just water or a chemical mixture.

Sodium cyanide is an organic material that has a high-affinity for metals.

Fenton Street is closed as fire crews work to contain the spill.

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    <title>Tianjin chemical blast: China jails 49 for disaster</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-10T12:49:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Chinese court has handed a suspended death sentence to the head of a chemical factory for his role in blasts that killed 173 people last year.
Ruihai Logistics chairman Yu Xuewei was also fined more than 700,000 yuan (about $100,000) over the disaster in the eastern port city of Tianjin.
He is among 49 staff and government officials jailed for their role in the firm's illegal operations.
Most of the dead were firefighters and police. Eight bodies were never found.

The explosion was one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Chinese history and caused more than $1bn in estimated economic losses.
The Ruihai Logistics chairman was found guilty of paying bribes allowing his company to sidestep safety regulations when storing sodium cyanide and other dangerous chemicals.]]></description>
<dc:subject>China industrial follow-up death illegal sodium_cyanide</dc:subject>
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    <title>Chemical leak leads to evacuation at Port Everglades</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-08T11:59:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The BSO Department of Fire Rescue hazardous materials team's action centered at a warehouse, 4300 McIntosh Road, west of the Stranahan River and east of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.  

BSO Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles said a port employee noticed a sodium cyanide tank was leaking.

The report prompted the evacuation of some 65 workers about 7 p.m. Sodium cyanide is poisonous and may be fatal if inhaled, swallowed or absorbed through the skin, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

Jachles said the crews determined the substance that was in the tank that had just returned from the Dominican Republic was not a hazardous chemical. Authorities suspect the leak may be liquid left over from when the tank was cleaned out after transporting sodium cyanide. 

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    <title>Chinese Investigators Identify Cause Of Tianjin Explosion</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-09T12:29:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new report by China’s top governing body identifies the cause of an explosion at a hazardous goods warehouse in Tianjin’s harbor in August of 2015. The catastrophe killed 165 people.
Assigning responsibility far and wide, investigators blamed the disaster on the negligence or corruption of 123 people in addition to the 49 previously arrested.
The immediate cause of the accident was the spontaneous ignition of overly dry nitrocellulose stored in a container that overheated, according to the report, issued on Feb. 5. Wetting agents inside the container had evaporated in the summer heat, investigators found. Flames from that initial fire reached nearby ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which exploded.
Investigators determined that the accident had a fairly limited impact on the local environment. Marine life in Bohai Bay, outside Tianjin, was not affected, the investigation found. And although hundreds of tons of sodium cyanide were stored at the warehouse, no one died from poisoning, the report added. Investigators noted that local authorities are still monitoring environmental quality in the area.
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    <title>Toxic chemical closes police building for several days</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-05T12:11:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NIXA, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri police building has reopened after a box of the potentially toxic chemical sodium cyanide was taken to a medical drop box there.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that a man took the box to the Nixa Police Department last Friday in an attempt to dispose of it. Lt. Jeff Lofton, of the Christian County Sheriff’s Department, says the man found the box after a move.

Whitney Weaver, of the Nixa Fire Protection District, says the man wound up taking the box with him when he left the police building.

Weaver says a clerk who handled a bottle in the box thought she felt ill effects. She and another clerk went to the hospital, but were OK. The building was closed for several days before reopening Wednesday.
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    <title>Man who dropped off dangerous chemical at Nixa PD found safe</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-31T17:53:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nixa fire officials say the man who tried to drop off chemicals at the Nixa Police Department Friday afternoon has been found. The man was not exposed and the chemicals have been disposed of safely.

Officials say the man had recently moved to the area and found the chemicals in a shed.  It was recommended by a friend to dispose of them in the medication drop box due to some of the chemicals appearing to be pills. 

He brought in the container for the used-medication drop box. It turns out it was sodium cyanide, a very dangerous chemical used in agriculture and mining.

Two employees had to be hospitalized for treatment.  They have both been released, and are doing fine.

The building was evacuated and cleaned.  Crews will be cleaning the building throughout the weekend.  For now, police are working out of Nixa City Hall.

Officials believe the man did not know how dangerous the chemical he found was. 

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    <title>Nixa police seek man who dropped off dangerous chemical; he, others may be in danger</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-30T15:36:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[NIXA, Mo. -
A man left a bottle of sodium cyanide at the Nixa Police Department on Friday afternoon and it endangered two clerks who work there.  Now police want that man to return so medical workers can see if he's in danger and whether he's endangered anyone else.

The Nixa Police Department is locked down and quarantined, and emergency officials don't know how long that status will remain.  The Nixa Fire Department and personnel from nearby fire departments are providing hazardous material assistance.   A tent was set up behind the police station so the two women could be decontaminated.   A hospital poison center also sent an antidote for them to take.  The employees then were sent to a hospital in Springfield.  A police department spokeswoman said both likely will recover.

The man who dropped off the bottle arrived about 1:30 p.m. with several old medicines.  He tried to put the sodium cyanide bottle in a used medicine disposal unit at the Nixa Police Department.  When it wouldn't fit, the two clerks tried to help him and the man left.  Shortly afterwards, the women began having trouble breathing, and fire and hazardous material crews were summoned.

"Hazardous chemical is something you can't jump into too fast. We want to take care of the patient. And when her symptoms increased is when we decided to pull her out and do the decontamination. Get her to the hospital as quickly as we could," said Nixa Assistant Fire Chief Whitney Weaver.

Police want to know more about where the sodium cyanide came from, and who has been exposed to it.  They say the man could call 911 if he can't return to the police station.  They believe the contamination was accidental, not malicious, and that the man didn't know what the chemical is.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-09-19T13:32:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/firm-in-china-chemical-blast-skirted-safety-rules/</link>
    <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>Search ends for missing in China chemical warehouse explosions, final death toll set at 173</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-12T12:24:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/09/11/search-ends-for-missing-in-china-chemical-warehouse-explosions-final-death-toll/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[BEIJING –  Chinese authorities say they've ended the search for the remaining missing in a massive chemical warehouse explosion last month. The move sets the final death toll at 173 in China's worst industrial disaster in years.

The announcement on the Tianjin city government's microblog says there is no hope of finding eight persons still unaccounted for. It says the court is now starting the process of issuing death certificates.

The eight include five firefighters, underscoring the explosion's status as the worst ever disaster for Chinese first responders, more than 100 of whom were killed.

Investigations into the Aug. 12 blasts at the Ruihai International Logistics warehouses showed they located closer to homes than permitted, and stored much more hazardous material than authorized, including 700 tons of highly toxic sodium cyanide.]]></description>
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    <title>China Explosion: Contaminated Tianjin Dirt From Blasts Headed For Special Storage Container</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-29T13:35:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dirt that was contaminated from deadly explosions at a hazardous goods warehouse in Tianjin, China, in mid-August is headed for an enormous "leak-proof" tank about two and a half miles from the site of the blasts. At least 145 people died and hundreds were injured in the explosions, and some of the chemicals stored at the warehouse at the time were toxic.

The new tank under construction has a surface area of 20,000 square meters and will be lined with five and a half inches of a purportedly impenetrable layer of sand and bricks, along with other material that guards against leakage, the South China Morning Post reported. 

Since the explosion, residents of the Tianjin area have reported foul smells. The warehouse stored at least 700 tons of sodium cyanide, which can form a toxic vapor when combined with water, the New York Times reported. After the explosions, dead fish washed up by the thousands on the banks of a nearby river.]]></description>
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    <title>First rainfall since Tianjin explosion leaves city covered in mysterious white foam: Shanghaiist</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-19T10:10:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://shanghaiist.com/2015/08/18/first_rainfall_since_tianjin_explos.php</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets.
Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.

Meteorological experts said Monday that rainfall would no longer pose direct danger to people's health, according to a CCTV News report.

However, authorities had expressed concern that the downpour, aside from hampering rescue efforts, would spread harmful substances across the city, after around 700 tons of sodium cyanide—a toxic chemical that creates a combustable substance when it meets with water—was found at the blast site.
Officials today said that at least 40 types of dangerous chemicals were detected at the blast zone, including 800 tons of ammonium nitrate and 500 tons of potassium nitrate, the Guardian reports.]]></description>
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    <title>China blast zone evacuated over contamination fear; 104 dead</title>
    <dc:date>2015-08-16T09:47:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TIANJIN, China -- New small explosions rocked a disaster zone in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Saturday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical contamination and found several more bodies to bring the death toll to 104 in massive blasts earlier in the week.

Angry relatives of missing firefighters stormed a government news conference to demand any information on their loved ones, who have not been seen since a fire and rapid succession of blasts late Wednesday at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals in a mostly industrial area.

The death toll in the ensuing inferno included at least 21 firefighters - making the disaster the deadliest for Chinese firefighters in more than six decades.

An unknown number of firefighters remain missing, and a total of 720 people were injured in the disaster in Tianjin, 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Beijing. One additional survivor was found Saturday.

Two Chinese news outlets, including the state-run The Paper, reported that the warehouse was storing 700 tons of sodium cyanide - 70 times more than it should have been holding at one time - and that authorities were rushing to clean it up.]]></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>Chemical drum discovered in new home</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-24T15:04:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[RACINE — Just three days after a resident moved into a new house, people working there found what appeared to be a toxic surprise they weren’t expecting.

They found what appeared to be a 30-gallon drum labeled sodium cyanide that was two-thirds full, said Racine Fire Battalion Chief Paul Madden.

As of Monday afternoon, Madden said they had not confirmed what was in the drum, but he did not believe it was sodium cyanide, which can be deadly when combined with water.

The Racine Fire Department’s hazmat team responded shortly after 11:15 a.m. Monday to the home in the 1300 block of Summit Avenue and police shut down the block where the chemical was found.

Madden said Monday afternoon the Fire Department had called in a cleanup crew to assist in the removal.

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    <title>Old rodent-killing chemical shuts down Allentown streets</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-07T12:18:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A container of decades-old chemicals shut down several streets and almost kept a teen from his prom today in Allentown.

A resident of the 700 block of Godfrey Street was working in his garage when he started coughing and called 911, fire Capt. John Christopher said. The man, who is a former animal control officer, said it was a chemical that was used to kill groundhogs.

When officials researched what kind was used to kill vermin decades ago, they learned it could be sodium cyanide, Christopher said. Officers responding to the scare over 30-year-old chemicals shut down the area as a precaution.

Jamie Allen was frantic to pick up her son's tux before Dieruff High School's prom later today. They needed to get the tux from his grandmother's house on East Green Street and pick up his date to head over to prom in Fogelsville.

The ill resident remained in his garage until he was decontaminated; three police officers, including two who responded to the house, and a firefighter were also decontaminated. Christopher said they were all taken to an area hospital as a precaution, but the homeowner, who has lung cancer, was still coughing.

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<item rdf:about="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/cyanide-death-forces-evacuation-of-schwartz-brewery-hotel-in-surry-hills/story-e6freuy9-1226193007631">
    <title>Cyanide death forces evacuation of Schwartz Brewery Hotel in Surry Hills</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PATRONS of a Surry Hills pub were evacuated yesterday after a suspected cyanide leak.

Police, ambulance and the firebrigade were called to the Schwartz Brewery Hotel following the discovery of a man's body in an upstairs room.

The man was found at about 2pm and initial enquiries led police to believe that he had ingested sodium cyanide.

The threat arose from a number of chemical items found in the upstairs room.

By 4.30pm the building had been cleared by hazardous materials officers and there was no risk of contagion.

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    <title>UPDATE: Spill prompts Ladue business evacuations</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-21T01:03:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ladue, MO (KSDK) - An accidental spill at a Ladue jewelry store prompted the closure of the westbound lanes of Clayton Road and several nearby businesses.

Someone spilled a container of sodium cyanide at Albarre Jewelry prompting the store and seven to 10 nearby stores to be evacuated.

The fire chief said the substance was used 25 years ago to clean jewelry, but the government has since banned it. The jewelry store didn't know what to do with it, so it was kept in safe storage. The container containing the substance was knocked over Thursday afternoon.

The fire department could smell the chemical when it arrived at the scene and didn't go into the jewelry store. A Hazmat team also responded but was sent away because the spill was small.

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    <title>UPDATE: Chemical Confirmed To Be Sodium Cyanide In Apartment</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-02T13:11:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A dead man and dangerous chemicals found in a Colorado Springs apartment. Authorities says the chemical is sodium cyanide. Normally used in gold mining, it is highly toxic and sometimes deadly. During this investigation, half a dozen patients were taken to the hospital as a safety precaution.

A Colorado Springs Fire paramedic, two AMR medics, a Springs police officer, and two workers from the complex had to be checked out.


"It's a little unnerving," one neighbor said.

Paramedics answered a call to the Fillmore Ridge Apartments and immediately found a man's lifeless body. Once police entered the apartment, they found the chemicals and quickly called the hazmat units. Several people who were exposed to the chemicals were decontaminated on scene.]]></description>
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    <title>Affidavit: Some chemicals in makeshift lab in Anderson are decades old</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-06T11:44:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ANDERSON — An affidavit made public Tuesday indicates that more than organic fuel was being formulated in a primitive lab recently discovered in Anderson near Hartwell Lake.

The affidavit says the owner of the property told state investigators that while he was trying to make biodiesel, he was also trying to make another chemical to sell, and was storing still others that apparently date from the 1990s.

The affidavit is part of a search warrant that the Independent Mail sought, and was provided, under South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act.

The affidavit says that George Smolen, who owns the former Flex-A-Form on Frontage Road, told state environmental officials that he was trying to use sodium cyanide as a catalyst in a chemical reaction to form another chemical, but that it “did not perform as he had expected.”

Smolen also told investigators that he was working with another chemical, whose identity he was uncertain about, to try to extract crystals from it and sell them.

He told investigators that he had acquired some sodium cyanide — in 30-gallon and 50-gallon drums — to repackage it “into different quantities or amounts.”

A federal coordinator discovered the makeshift lab in late June while he was in the area to supervise the cleanup of an unrelated site nearby on Manse Jolly Road. Crews from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control have been working for a little more than a week to identify, catalog and clean up hundreds of chemicals found in three warehouses and seeping onto the property, which abuts the lake and stands only about 40 feet from Interstate 85.]]></description>
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    <title>Derailment delays VIA train service - thestar.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-19T11:15:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/877060--train-hauling-hazardous-materials-derails-in-cornwall?bn=1</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Via Rail passengers travelling between Toronto and Montreal face delays until at least Tuesday afternoon after a CN freight train derailed near Cornwall on Monday.

Ashley Doyle, a Via Rail spokeswoman, said trains travelling between Toronto and Montreal are being rerouted through Ottawa and that some train service is being replaced with buses. The rerouting is adding about two hours’ travel time each way.

The derailment occurred at 9:50 a.m. Monday when 18 of the freight train’s cars went off the tracks. Six were carrying dangerous goods and one spilled about nine kilograms of sodium cyanide, said CN spokesman Jim Feeny.

“The spill is contained,” Feeny said, adding that a haz-mat team is on the scene disposing of the chemical.

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