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    <title>Bomb Squad rushes to school in Montgomery County to dispose chemical in chemistry lab</title>
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The bomb squad responded to Washington Christian Academy around 11:30 a.m. to discard what appeared to be, Picric Acid found in a classroom, according to Montgomery County Fire Public Information Officer Pete Piringer,

The team had to take the chemical to a secure and isolated construction site nearby at Batchelor’s Forest Road in Olney to properly dispose of it. Piringer said a loud "boom" was heard momentarily in the area.

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    <title>Explosive ending for old, potentially volatile chemicals at U of Regina as police carry out planned detonation</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-08T12:10:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The University of Regina has disposed of more than two kilograms of potentially volatile chemicals it discovered last fall on its campus — by blowing the chemicals up.

Members of the Regina Police Service's bomb squad were on campus over Thursday and Friday to dispose of the chemicals, which had become unstable over time, U of R president Jeff Keshen told CBC News.

The exact length of time hasn't been determined, he said.

At about 9 a.m. Friday, the chemicals were remotely detonated in an unpopulated open area to the south of the Regina campus, a spokesperson said.

The chemicals found in about nine containers — including dinitrophenol, 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine and 2,4,6-trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid — were discovered during an audit of the chemicals supply in the Research and Innovation Centre and adjoining lab building at the university. 

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In September 2016, a practical using 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine made a return to the A-level curriculum – with unexpectedly dramatic consequences. Dried-out containers of the reagent were soon being unearthed in school chemical stores. Safe when damp, once dry this chemical has the potential to explode. By Christmas that year, the bomb squad had been called out to blow up containers at nearly 600 UK schools. This mammoth endeavour was coordinated by Cleapss, the UK’s science education advisory service. ‘It was a very exciting, but also quite a stressful, period of time,’ explains Matt Endean, the Cleapss deputy director. 

Two years later, safety in school laboratories was back in the news. It transpired that some ‘heatproof gauzes that had been sold to schools [for use with Bunsen burners] had asbestos in them’, Endean says. With no information available on how far back this issue went, ‘we had to oversee the bagging up and safe disposal of every gauze in every school in the country’. 

Endean is an ex-teacher who graduated with a combined degree in chemistry and secondary education from the University of Exeter, UK, in 2001. He then took up a science teacher post at an inner London girls’ school. After a couple of years, he was promoted to acting head of department and found that he relished leadership. In 2005, he left the classroom – becoming a science advisor for a local authority. ‘It was a new challenge and a chance to influence and work at a higher level,’ he says. In this role, he supported science teachers and heads of department at 17 secondary schools. 

In 2011, Endean joined Cleapss as its assistant director and was promoted to his current position four years later. Cleapss is a membership organisation that provides advice to 98% of schools and colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and around 700 overseas schools. Its overarching goal is to ‘provide support and guidance to teachers and technicians in schools on how to do safe and effective practical work,’ Endean explains. 

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FALMOUTH — A hazardous chemical was detonated after being discovered near Falmouth Hospital on Friday.

Falmouth firefighters were called at 1:30 p.m. to meet with the state bomb squad at a parking lot near the hospital, Falmouth Fire Department Deputy Chief Chad Absten, said.

A Joint Hazard Incident Response Team, which includes state HazMat technicians and state police bomb technicians, responded when "some old picric acid" was found, Public Information Officer Jennifer Mieth wrote in an email.

The hazardous material was taken to the town leaf dump where it was detonated, Absten said.

"The bomb squad did end up countercharging the picric acid safely," Mieth wrote. "It can be very unstable when it gets old."

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    <title>Safe in Kennewick WA contained poisonous WWI chemical weapon</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Kennewick homeowner who bought an old safe found a nasty surprise inside.

It was rigged with a theft deterrent device.

The metal contraption had three glass vials inside holding a slightly opaque liquid, according to Ryan Lancaster, spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology.

It was apparently intended to deter safe crackers who might break the vials and get a toxic surprise, he wrote in a Department of Ecology blog post.

They typically used chloropicrin or phosgene, poison gases first manufactured for chemical warfare during World War I.

A theft deterrent device filled with poison was found in an old safe purchased by a Kennewick homeowner. 
The Kennewick Fire Department contacted Ecology’s spill response program for help in the incident.
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    <title>Crews remove potentially explosive chemical from NDSU lab</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FARGO — Authorities came to a North Dakota State University laboratory Tuesday, March 12, to remove an expired chemical that could have combusted if it had crystallized, according to the Fargo Fire Department.

The fire department, NDSU police and Fargo bomb squad — some wearing hazmat outfits — were at Dunbar Laboratory at about 10:30 a.m. The removal of the chemical was planned for Tuesday because the university is on spring break.

Battalion Chief Joe Mangin of the Fargo Fire Department said a professor had notified authorities to express concerns about the chemical, a clear colorless liquid called tetrahydrofuran. Authorities said the chemical could have exploded if it had crystallized.

It took roughly two hours for crews to safely remove the chemical from the area.

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    <title>Bomb squad, hazmat team respond to discovery of acid in TSB lab</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-20T09:04:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A bomb squad and hazmat units were deployed to a Transportation Safety Board laboratory in the city’s south end Friday night after traces of potentially explosive picric acid were discovered during a routine inspection.

“Someone noticed traces of dry residue on a container lid,” TSB spokeswoman Josée Coallier said.

“Our guys know better than to take any chances.”

Ottawa Fire Services hazmat units and the Ottawa police bomb squad were deployed to a TSB engineering laboratory on Research Private, near the Ottawa airport.

A posting on the Transport Canada website called picric acid, used in many labs as a chemical reagent, “by far, one of the more dangerous chemicals being used today.”

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    <title>Potentially dangerous substance at UCLA campus safely detonated</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-06T12:08:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Los Angeles police and bomb squad officials detonated a jar containing a potentially dangerous chemical at UCLA in Westwood on Saturday.

Acting out of an abundance of caution, the LAPD Bomb Squad detonated the 6-ounce jar of what officials determined was picric acid.

Someone took the substance to a household hazardous waste drop-off in the 600 block of S. Gayley Avenue, where LAFD officials responded at about 10:30 a.m.

Investigators said picric acid can be explosive, especially when it crystalizes. It has industrial and medical uses, and it was once used for manufacturing explosives, officials said.

After realizing what they were dealing with, UCLA police stopped traffic and cleared the area until the bomb squad, LAPD and LAFD disposed of the acid.

"Picric acid, when it's dry, it has the potential to explode, and it'll cause a pretty fair explosion and flying glass and it could hurt somebody pretty bad," said Sgt. Brian Washburn of UCLA police.

Officials said they cleared the situation without injuries, but added that the substance is not something that should be taken to a household hazardous waste drop.
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    <title>Explosion as bomb squad brings end to alert involving 'unstable' chemical in Henleaze</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-18T11:17:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A controlled explosion has been carried out to dispose of an 'unstable substance' in Henleaze.

Fire crews were called to Park Grove shortly before 3.30pm today, when what was described as an ‘unstable substance’ was found at a house in the street.

Nearby Henleaze Infant and Junior schools - which were already finishing for the day - were evacuated and residents were told to keep their distance, as police and firefighters set up a 50-metre safety perimeter.

Remaining pupils were ushered out of a side entrance to avoid the cordoned-off area.

Bomb squad truck in Park Grove, Henleaze, scene of an alert over an 'unstable substance'
The school later confirmed that all the pupils were safe.

Eventually the cordon was relaxed and Park Grove residents were allowed to re-enter their homes, but they were told to ensure all windows and doors were shut.

One mother, who had been waiting for around an hour, said: "We were all told to leave very quickly.

"It was a bit frustrating because I've got a cake in the oven. I did manage to turn the oven off before I left."

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit were called to tackle the mystery substance and arrived on the scene shortly before 6.40pm.

Royal Logistic Corps bomb disposal unit truck at the scene of today's alert in Park Grove, Henleaze
At around 7.05pm a loud bang was heard as the soldiers carried out a controlled explosion to make the chemical safe.

Avon Fire and Rescue service said that the substance had been taken into the school playing field and surrounded by sand bags before the controlled explosion.

It was later revealed that the substance was picric acid, a volatile chemical which caused a similar alert when some was discovered at Clifton College last year.]]></description>
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    <title>Chemical at Ponteland school to be blown up by bomb squad after fears it could be unsafe</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-08T12:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A chemical at a Northumberland school is being blown up by a bomb squad after fears it could be unsafe.

The alarm was raised at Ponteland Community High School in Northumberland after chemical 2,4-DNP was found in a potentially dangerous state at the site.

A team from Explosive Ordnance Disposal were called to the school on Callerton Lane on Monday after the chemical was reported to the police.

A controlled explosion of the chemical 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine, which is used by A-level chemistry students in experiments, was due to take place on Monday afternoon.

The concerns stem from the chemical drying out which increases its risk as an explosive hazard.]]></description>
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    <title>Controlled explosions carried out in schools after A-level chemistry chemical stored incorrectly </title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-03T10:50:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[omb squads have been called to schools across the country following a Government warning over a lab chemical that can explode if not stored correctly.

At least a dozen schools have reportedly summoned military bomb disposal teams to conduct controlled explosions in recent days.

And some of the blasts have prompted complaints on social media from local residents, who said they were given no warning.
Last week, schools received a reminder from the advisory body Cleapss (the Consortium of Local Education Authorities for the Provision of Science Equipment) on how to correctly store the substance 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine.

The chemical, also known as 2,4-DNP, is used in A-level chemistry lessons and can become dangerous if it is allowed to dry out.]]></description>
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    <title>Bomb squad called and Bristol school evacuated after explosive chemical discovered in science lab</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-14T10:49:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Clifton College and the roads around it have been evacuated and cordoned off after just one test tube with a hazardous chemical inside was discovered at the back of a store room.

A major incident emergency was declared by fire and police after they were contacted just before 3pm today, and a 50m cordon was imposed around the science block of the college in Guthrie Road.

The Army's EOD bomb disposal squad were called and are understood to have arrived shortly after 5pm.

Police and fire service bosses reassured members of the public that it was not a suspicious incident, and the cordon was precautionary.

The emergency services were called by staff after a small amount of the chemical picric acid was discovered dried out in the bottom of a test tube in the school's science block.

Picric acid is not hazardous in its usual liquid state, but if allowed to dry out it becomes highly explosive and unstable if moved abruptly.

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    <title>Chemical discovery prompts emergency disposal drill at Northwest College</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-15T12:32:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powelltribune.com/news/item/14422-chemical-discovery-prompts-emergency-disposal-drill-at-northwest-college</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The discovery of a potentially unstable chemical at Northwest College last month provided an opportunity for emergency training on Jan. 7.
For the college, that training involved evacuating the NWC Math and Science Building and emergency communications.

For local police and firefighters, the Cody Bomb Squad and the Wyoming Region 6 Emergency Response Team (based in Worland), the training provided a valuable practice in emergency response and safety skills.

NWC classes weren’t in session on Jan. 7.

Jay Dickerson, assistant professor of biology at NWC, said he found an old bottle of picric acid in a chemical storage area in Room 232 in the Math and Science Building.

“I was the discoverer,” Dickerson said. “Mike was the one to realize how dangerous it was.”

Dickerson was referring to Michael Cuddy, assistant professor of chemistry, who also serves as the NWC faculty safety officer.

“He was telling me a story about how they found it at (another college lab), and my eyes got real big,” Dickerson said. “I didn’t let him finish the story; I just dragged him over and said, ‘That’s what this is, isn’t it?’”

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    <title>Slow-mo explosion of Picric Acid at Meadows Field</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-31T11:54:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kern County Public Health's Hazmat team was called to the Kern County Special Waste with Sheriff Bomb Squad assessing hazardous chemical after Picric acid, a hazardous chemical, was found at Kern County Special Waste Facility today. 

The Picric acid was disposed by incineration in safe location near Meadows Field at about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. 

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    <title>Picric Acid Found and Safely Detonated at Junk Drop-off</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-20T11:04:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Oct. 3 the Boston bomb squad safely detonated a chemical vial in Parking Lot D, after it was identified as the volatile picric acid during a hazardous waste drop-off event that the University of Massachusetts Boston hosts for the city.
An individual dropped off the picric acid with a couple other vials they found in their basement, materials previously owned by their father, who had been a doctor. Someone from UMass Boston’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety noticed the chemicals and was concerned about them being handled safely, so they alerted a Green Harbors chemist to investigate, says UMass Boston Director of Communications DeWayne Lehman.  
One chemical was identified as the extremely volatile picric acid, which is so unstable that even taking off the lid could spark a reaction. Someone immediately called 911, and the bomb squad, Fire Department, and ambulances were dispatched to the university. 
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    <title>Chemicals stash in Harwich prompts major response</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-13T11:26:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[HARWICH — Hazardous materials experts descended on a Harwich neighborhood Thursday, spending seven hours removing bottles of old chemicals from a Bank Street home.

The exact source of the materials is unknown, but firefighters suspect they were left by the homeowner, who is listed in town assessing records as Peter A. Nickerson, of Amherst, N.Y. A pathologist, Nickerson may at one time have done some chemistry at his 322 Bank St. home, according to Harwich Deputy Fire Chief Kent Farrenkopf.
...
Nickerson could not be reached for comment. Firefighters guessed that the chemicals had been in the home for decades, Farrenkopf said.

Mark Nickerson, no relation to the homeowner, who was the contractor hired to clean out the vacant house, found as many as 50 bottles of old and poorly labeled chemicals, Farrenkopf said. He called the Fire Department.

"He did the right thing and called us, rather than throw it in a dumpster," said Hyannis fire Lt. Norman "Spanky" Sylvester, an expert on hazardous materials removal.

Some chemicals, including picric acid, were highly explosive and had to be removed by the state police bomb squad, Sylvester said.

The acid had to be transferred without bumps or sudden movements, Farrenkopf said. The bomb squad put the bottles inside buckets filled with SpeedyDry.]]></description>
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    <title>Bomb squad deals with highly explosive chemical at Dublin school</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-08T13:56:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AN ARMY BOMB disposal unit dealt with a highly explosive chemical at a school in Sutton, Dublin earlier today.
The team was deployed at 10am this morning and returned to base shortly after 11am. The chemical is a common substance found in school labs, called dinitrophenylhydrazine, or ‘Brady’s re-agent’.
It can become unstable over time if it dries out and it is also relatively sensitive to shock and friction so it can detonate if subjected to shock, like a fall.
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    <title>Explosive chemical shuts down chemical roundup</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-27T13:28:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AURORA - The Aurora Fire Department had to shut down an annual chemical roundup Saturday, because a man brought in crystallized picric acid.

Picric acid can be as dangerous as dynamite when it crystallizes.

The Aurora Fire Department says nobody was injured. 

The bomb squad and the Aurora Fire Department will move the chemical to a safe place to blow it up.

This roundup day was rescheduled after the September floods and it is uncertain whether or not the day will be rescheduled again.

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    <title>UTS chemical scare sees 5000 evacuated</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-24T11:03:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An explosive chemical scare forced the mass evacuation of 5000 students from three buildings at the University of Technology, causing major road closures in inner-Sydney.

Emergency services crews were called to the Chippendale campus on Broadway after a triple zero call about the crystallising of picric acid, a highly explosive substance.

NSW Fire and Rescue ordered students out of three university towers and called the NSW bomb squad to help try and neutralise the substance.

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    <title>$5 estate sale purchase leads to hazmat ordeal in Camarillo</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-15T11:20:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A World War II-era first-aid kit bought at an estate sale led to a huge hazardous material response Monday for one Camarillo family.
...
The Ventura County Fire Department responded to a home in the 100 block of Calle Vista about 10:35 a.m. An Oxnard Fire Department hazardous materials team and the Ventura County sheriff’s bomb squad also assisted because of the potential for more exposure and explosion.

Authorities removed the kit from the house and got rid of it safely.

Jody Williams and her family bought the Girl Scouts first-aid kit for $5 at a multi-estate sale Saturday in Ojai and later put it up for sale on eBay.
...
Williams learned the kit contained gauze pads soaked in medical-grade picric acid, an antiseptic that over time can crystallize, spark and create an explosion. She likened it to Pop Rocks.

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    <title>Agawam public safety officials responding to hazmat incident in Feeding Hills</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-08T12:07:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/agawam_public_safety_officials.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AGAWAM - A resident unwittingly touched off a hazardous materials scare that brought an emergency response after an attempt to bring old chemicals to the town’s waste recovery collection at the Public Works Department on Saturday. 

Fire Department Lt. Kenneth J. Sagendoph said the call came in at 12:34 p.m. about the resident, who brought petroleum ether and picric acid, volatile and explosive chemicals, to the collection sponsored by Clean Harbors. The chemicals were turned away, and public safety officials were alerted to the situation, and responded to the resident’s address at Avalon Place. 

Sagendorph said the resident took a box of old chemicals from an elderly relative to dispose of them. 

“The residents were surprised. They didn’t expect the response they got,” Sagendorph said. 

A section of North Street was closed, from Ridgeway Drive to Wilbert Terrace, for the investigation. In addition to police and fire, the state police bomb squad was called to help remove the chemicals because they could explode if combined. He said there were also unidentified chemicals in the box as well. 
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    <title>Dangerous substance detonated at Miramar landfill</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-26T20:45:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - For the second time this month, a man dropped off dangerous chemicals to be disposed of at the Miramar Landfill.

And once again, Hazmat teams and the bomb squad showed up to destroy the substance.

Investigators say the man called ahead to let them know that he was bringing in the hazardous liquid used in laboratories, which had been sitting around his house for about 15 years.

It's called tetrahydrofuran and officials quickly closed the landfill and highway 52 once they realized what was dropped off.

"It was the same individual bringing a chemical, the same exact chemical, with more quantity back again today," said San Diego Fire-Resucue Battalion James Gaboury.

The unidentified man followed all the rules for the household hazardous waste program except one.

"He made a regular appointment, he just did not make it clear of what he was actually bringing in."

Workers then immediately called San Diego Fire-Rescue personnel.

More than a liter of tetrahydrofuran was brought to the landfill, and when it sits and for ages too long it can become explosive.

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    <title>Dangerous chemicals left at Miramar landfill</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-05T14:45:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MIRAMAR (CBS 8) - Hazmat officials and the San Diego Bomb Squad were called to the Miramar Landfill Saturday after a man dropped off dangerous chemicals.

The San Diego resident dropped off about a liters worth of tetrahydrofuran in a clearly marked steal container, and it immediately raised a red flag when it was brought in.  

"It was a small quantity of tetrahydrofuran. Which is basically a flammable liquid," said SDFD Hazmat Specialist Gerad Rodriguez. "And the concern with it is that as it sits, it ages and develops organic peroxides that can be explosive."

Hazmat and the Bomb Squad were called in, along with other local agencies. The Bomb Squad used a robot to handle the chemical. It was taken a safe distance away and detonated.

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    <title>Muncie school closet held volatile chemical for 50 years</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-17T22:25:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MUNCIE -- A potentially explosive situation was avoided at Burris Laboratory School Wednesday after staff members discovered a volatile chemical, which had perhaps sat undisturbed for more than a half-century, inside a school storage closet.

The response -- which brought the Delaware County sheriff office's bomb squad to the scene -- resulted in a total building evacuation until the chemical could be removed and properly disposed of.

Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president for marketing and communications at Ball State University, which operates Burris, said a container of picric acid that had crystallized was found in a chemical storage closet at the end of the school day on Tuesday.

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    <title>Bomb disposal team make chemical safe in secondary school · The Score</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-18T14:50:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AN ARMY BOMB Disposal Team visited a Cork girls’ secondary school today to make an unstable chemical safe.
The Defence Forces deployed the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team to Christ the King Secondary School, Douglas following a request from the gardaí.
Theteam were called to made safe a quantity of the unstable chemical Dinitrophenylhydrazine and arrived on scene at 4pm. The chemical was found in a school laboratory during a routine audit, and was removed to a safe location where it was made safe through the use of a controlled explosion.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Ireland laboratory discovery response dinitrophenylhydrazine time-sensitive</dc:subject>
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    <title>Unstable chemical made safe in Cork</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-28T12:07:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Army bomb disposal team has made safe an unstable chemical at a disused school laboratory in Cork city.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team was called by gardai after a quantity of dinitrophenylhydrazine was found during renovations at St Finbarr’s Seminary, Farranferris yesterday.

The team arrived at about 7.50pm and removed the chemical to waste ground where it was made safe by controlled explosion. Within an hour the scene was declared safe.

Chemical re-agent Dinitrophenylhydrazine is routinely used in laboratories but can become unstable overtime.

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    <title>Picric acid found in state lab</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-17T10:49:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Department of Agriculture got another scare Monday night as picric acid was found for the second time in two months. Once again, the bomb squad had to be called in to detonate it.

It was discovered around 5 p.m., and a few minutes before 8 p.m. crews closed off part of nearby Cameron Street and detonated the acid in a field nearby. People on scene could hear the boom. 

However, the amount of picric acid found this time was about 1/4 of what was found last time.

Since the discovery came around 5 p.m. few people were inside the building. Capital Police, fire crews, the State Police Bomb Squad and the Department of General Services did respond.
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    <title>Army team makes safe unstable chemicals at Dundalk IT · TheJournal.ie</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-11T11:02:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AN ARMY BOMB disposal team has this afternoon made safe a number of unstable chemicals at the Dundalk Institute of Technology.
The Defence Forces carried out a controlled explosion on the chemical, called celloidin wool, which was found to be unstable during a routine audit of chemicals at DKIT.
The bomb disposal team was called to the campus at around 4.10pm this afternoon after being alerted by Gardaí. The area around the scene was evacuated as the team dealt with the unstable chemical.
The chemical was rendered safe at the scene and a controlled explosion was carried out to dispose of it. The scene was declared safe at 4.45pm.
Celloidin wool is a chemical used in laboratories which can become unstable as it dries out.
This is the 114th call out so far this year for a bomb disposal team.
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<dc:subject>Ireland laboratory discovery response other_chemical time-sensitive</dc:subject>
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    <title>Picric found at Pennsylvania ag dept lab</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-15T11:03:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Multiple police agencies, including the bomb squad, surrounded the State Department of Agriculture building, for hours Thursday night, trying to remove a highly explosive chemical from a lab inside.

Using a robot, they were successfully able to remove the chemical from the building and then around 9:30 p.m. you could feel the loud boom as they buried, then detonated the chemical at a field close by on Cameron Street.

While doing some inventory, an employee found a one-pound container of a chemical called picric acid on a shelf, in a plant lab inside the agriculture building. It looked like it had been left there after being used to test plants. 

It's not highly explosive when in water. However, the chemical was found dry and crystalized.

"Since the chemical has crystalized, we called Department of General Services,” stated Department of Agriculture Press Secretary Samantha Krepps. “And we told them we had this chemical, they told us to evacuate the building we did so at 445 p.m."

Everything wrapped up safely. No injuries are reported.
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    <title>Controlled explosion carried out on unstable chemical at Cork school · TheJournal.ie</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-08T11:26:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AN UNSTABLE CHEMICAL was made safe at a secondary school in Cork City this evening by members of the Defence Forces.
An Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a quantity of an unstable chemical known as Dinitrophenylhydrazine at a secondary school in Farranree in Cork City just before 8pm this evening.
The unstable chemical had been found during a routine audit of chemicals in the school laboratory with the Defence Forces called to the scene.
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    <title>Unstable chemicals made safe in Tipperary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-08T11:26:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The army made safe a quantity of unstable picric acid at a chemist in Tipperary today.

Shortly before midday, an Army Bomb Disposal Team was deployed to the scene at Main Square, Thurles, where the unstable chemical had been found during a routine audit of chemicals.

It was removed to waste ground by the team and a controlled explosion was carried out in order to make the chemical safe.

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    <title>Army team makes unstable chemical safe on Malahide Road · TheJournal.ie</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-14T11:43:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AN ARMY BOMB disposal team was deployed to the Malahide Road at Dublin 17 earlier today after an unstable chemical was discovered at a laboratory.
The team arrived on the scene at Teagasc on the Malahide Road at about 4pm. The unstable chemical, called Picric Acid, had been found during a routine audit of the lab.
It was removed to waste ground and a controlled explosion was carried out to make the substance safe.]]></description>
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    <title>Chemicals removed from school and home in Marshfield</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-06T12:42:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[MARSHFIELD — A State Police bomb squad and a hazardous-materials response team on Monday removed explosive chemicals from two locations in town.

Chemicals were taken from the basement of a Church Street home and then from the high school’s chemistry lab.

The Marshfield Fire Department said all of the dangerous chemicals found at both locations were removed and disposed of. No injuries were reported.

As of Monday night, classes at the high school, at 167 Forest St., had not been suspended or canceled as a result of the chemical removal.

The chemical removed from the high school was potassium, a substance commonly used in fireworks and pyrotechnics, said John Hall, chairman of Marshfield’s board of selectmen. By 7:30 p.m., the potassium was transported to the town landfill off Clay Pit Road, where it was disposed of.

Earlier in the day, picric acid, an explosive agent once used by military forces, was removed from a Church Street home, Marshfield Fire Chief Kevin Robinson said.

Robinson said the chemical operation at the high school occurred Monday afternoon only because the hazardous-materials team was already in town for the Church Street incident.]]></description>
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    <title>Unstable chemical removed from Dublin school</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-14T11:06:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Army Bomb Disposal Team made safe a quantity of unstable Dinitrophenylhydrazine at Scoil Caitriona, Mobhi Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11 this morning.

The Defence Forces deployed the team to the school, where the unstable chemical had been found during a routine audit of chemicals at the laboratory.

The team arrived on scene at 11am and removed the chemical from the building. The Bomb Disposal Team carried out a controlled explosion in order to make the chemical safe.

The scene was declared safe at 12.20pm.

Dinitrophenylhydrazine is a chemical re-agent and is routinely used in laboratories but can crystallise and become unstable and sensitive to heat or friction.

This is the 27th call-out for the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams in 2012 and the first dealing with a hazardous material.
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    <title>Bomb squad deal with unstable chemical at laboratory · TheJournal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-20T11:28:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[AN ARMY BOMB disposal team was called out to deal with an unstable chemical at a science facility in Dungarvan, Co Waterford this afternoon.
The unit were alerted after a quantity of picric acid was discovered during an audit at Lancaster Laboratories in the town. Arriving on scene at 3.45pm, they were able to remove the chemical to nearby waste ground.
Specialists then carried out a controlled explosion to make the chemical safe. The scene was declared safe at 4.20pm.
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<dc:subject>Ireland public discovery response picric_acid time-sensitive</dc:subject>
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    <title>Army bomb team makes acid safe</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-15T13:52:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An unstable acid was made safe by the Defence Forces at a Waterford laboratory yesterday.

The bomb disposal team was called to Lancaster Laboratories in Dungarvan due to concerns over picric acid.

The team arrived at 3.30pm and removed the chemical to waste ground where they carried out a controlled explosion. The area was declared safe by 4.40pm. Picric acid is routinely used in labs but over time it can crystallise and become unstable.

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    <title>Bomb squad called in as chemical found at Dublin school · TheJournal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-02T13:18:26+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ARMY BOMB DISPOSAL experts have made safe an unstable chemical after sealing off several streets near St Stephen’s Green in Dublin.
The military unit was called in to the Catholic University School on Lower Leeson Street, after a quantity of picric acid was found. The bomb disposal team removed the chemical to a nearby piece of open ground, then carried out a controlled explosion.
Traffic was stopped in the area as the unit arrived at 4.15pm. The scene was declared safe at 6.10pm.
According to the Defence Forces, the substance was discovered during a routine audit of chemicals held in the school’s science department. Picric acid is a reagent which is routinely used in laboratories, but over time it can crystallise and become unstable.
It has caused a number of alerts in recent weeks, including some at schools in Limerick and Celbridge, and the offices of the pharmaceutical regulator in Dublin. The Leeson Street incident is the 21st time this year that the unit has dealt with dangerous substances, and its 186th call-out since January.
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    <title>Bomb squad carry out controlled explosions in Dublin and Cork schools · TheJournal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-24T13:17:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[THE IRISH DEFENCE Forces have carried out controlled explosions on dangerous chemicals discovered in two schools in Dublin and Cork today.
The Forces’ Army Bomb Disposal Team was called to Grange Community College in Donaghmede, Dublin just after 2pm this afternoon after a quantity of 2, 4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine was discovered.
2, 4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine is a chemical reagent which is found in laboratories.
It is relatively sensitive to shock and friction and can become unstable over time if it crystallises.
The quantity of the chemical was removed from the school to a safe location, where it was destroyed by means of a controlled explosion and the scene was declared safe at 3.30pm.
In a second incident, the Army Bomb Disposal Team was called to St Mary’s Secondary School in Macroom, Co Cork at around 3pm after another quantity of 2, 4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine was discovered.
Again, the chemical was removed to a safe located and destroyed by a controlled explosion.
Today’s call outs were the 185th and 186th this year, and the 20th and 21st involving what the Defence Forces call “substances of concern”.
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    <title>Chemical found in Co Limerick school made safe</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-09T11:26:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0908/limerick.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An army bomb disposal team has carried out a controlled explosion on a chemical substance found in the science lab of a Co Limerick school.
The army was called to St Enda's Community School on the Kilmallock Road after a quantity of picric acid was found during a routine audit of chemicals in the school.
Picric Acid is routinely used in laboratories but can become unstable and sensitive to heat and shock over time.]]></description>
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    <title>School evacuated over hazardous substance</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-08T10:58:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0907/kilmallock.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe an unstable chemical found at a secondary school in Co Limerick.
Coláiste Iosaef in Kilmallock was evacuated at around 11.30am following the discovery of a hazardous substance in the science laboratory during a routine audit of chemicals.
The bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion on the unstable chemical, Dinitrophenylhydrazine.
Dinitrophenylhydrazine is a chemical re-agent and is routinely used in laboratories but can crystallise and become unstable over time.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Ireland laboratory discovery response dinitrophenylhydrazine time-sensitive</dc:subject>
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    <title>Army makes safe quantity of unstable chemicals</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-31T11:54:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/army-makes-safe-quantity-of-unstable-chemicals-518527.html</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An Army Bomb Disposal team made safe a quantity of unstable chemicals at the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Celbridge, Co. Kildare this evening.

The Defence Forces deployed the team to the laboratory where the chemical, picric acid, had been found during a routine audit of chemicals.

The team arrived on scene at 5pm and removed the chemical to nearby waste ground. The team carried out a controlled explosion in order to make the chemical safe.

Picric Acid is a chemical re-agent and is routinely used in laboratories but can crystallise and become unstable over time.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Ireland laboratory discovery response picric_acid time-sensitive</dc:subject>
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    <title>Unstable chemical found at offices of pharmaceutical regulator · TheJournal</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-27T22:54:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[THE IRISH DEFENCE Forces had to carry out a controlled explosion today after an unstable chemical was found at the offices of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) in Dublin this morning.
An Army Bomb Disposal Team was called to the offices of the PSI, which regulates pharmacy services in Ireland, on Shrewsbury Road after the unstable chemical Picric Acid was found this morning.
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