Industrial Fire World

DeKalb, IL: Fire leveled a horse-slaughtering plant.

Sun, 31 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Columbia, TN: Nearby residents were evacuated after lightning set fire to a large tree in the middle of a propane storage lot.

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Officials temporarily closed an industrial park after an accident in which several bottles of bromine broke. Workers complained of eye irritation.

Sat, 30 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Waukesha, WI: An anhydrous ammonia leak at an engine plant caused concern, but no evacuation was ordered.

Fri, 29 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Marrakesh, Morocco: A lightning strike triggered a fire at a cobalt plant.

Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Atlanta, GA: Safety devices extinguished a blaze in an asphalt plant. No injuries were reported.

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Port Everglades, FL: Fire broke out in an asphalt tank at a chemical plant.

Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Gary, IN: Three steel plant workers were injured in a series of explosion in a slag pit where waste collects after liquid iron is poured out of the blast furnace.

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Elyria, OH: A tanker truck delivering hydrochloric acid to a wheelchair manufacturing facility ruptured, spilling 400 gallons in the parking lot.

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Toronto, Canada: Fire spread through the walls and floor of a garment factory.

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Athens, GA: Four electricians at a nuclear plant were seriously burned in a flash fire when a grounding cable came too close to an energized circuit breaker.

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Linthwaite, U.K.: A blaze at a chemical plant destroyed two boilers and adjoining pipework. No injuries were reported but production was temporarily shut down.

Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Djibouti, East Africa: Plastic drums containing 200 tons of chromated copper arsenate began leaking, threatening the pollute the port facility.

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Indianapolis, IN: Fourteen people required decontamination after workers cleaning a tank at an environmental company were exposed to the contents. Exposure spread to hospital workers and firefighters after several of the workers visited to local emergency room.

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Moncure, N.C.: Fire spread from the press at a wood processing plant into the duct work and onto the roof.

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Lubbock, TX: Beer flowed freely when a train collided with a tractor-trailer pulling into the distributors parking lot to make a delivery.

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Turin, Italy: Fire swept through the warehouse at a steel plant.

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Newcastle, WY: Cold weather and a frozen valve were blamed for the release of 14,000 pounds of silica catalyst, a brown powder that coated neighboring structures.

Sun, 24 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Roanoke, VA: Fire spread through a 145 acre illegal dump estimated to contain three million used tires.

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Naameh, Lebanon: An explosion at a paint factory led to a fire that burned the facility to the ground.

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Port Talbot, U.K.: Several small fire broke out at a steel plant. Eighteen weeks earlier an explosion destroyed a blast furnace at the plant.

Sat, 23 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Germinston, South Africa: A car plant warehouse containing flammable chemicals was gutted by fire.

Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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South Bend, IN: A man shot four co-workers to death at an aircraft parts plant, then killed himself after a high speed pursuit by police.

Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Denver, CO: Workers cleaning up a former nuclear weapons facility were accidentally sprayed with radioactive liquid. Two required skin decontamination.

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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West Hazelton, PA: Workers were evacuated during a two-alarm fire at a plastic bag plant.

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Port Jefferson, NY: More than 4,000 gallons of heating oil spilled from a barge into the water. Booms in place as fuel was off loaded caught the spilled oil. Meanwhile, at Astoria, N.Y. the same day, more than 2,000 gallons of oil spilled from a barge owned by the same company.

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Saint John, New Brunswick: Three workers doing routine maintenance to a filter atop a 32-foot oil refinery stack were burned in an explosion triggered by a pressure release.

Thu, 21 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Moscow, OH: Two men deslagging the inside of a power plant boiler were treated after a large chunk of hot coal dropped off, causing a steam explosion.

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Pasadena, TX: A tank damaged in an explosion last January at a chemical plant erupted again in flames.

Wed, 20 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Sanford, N.C.: Two workers at an auto parts plant installing new equipment where burned in an electrical flash fire.

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Bethany, MO: Anhydrous ammonia used as fertilizer spilled and ignited as it was being pumped from a large storage tank.

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Greensboro, N.C.: A worker suffered second and third degree burns over 40 percent of his body in a flash fire at an automoble plant.

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Raal-Unuf, Libya: The countrys largest oil refinery caught fire and burned nearly three days. An explosion in an ethylene tank triggered the blaze.

Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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St. Paul, MN: A fire in a grain dryer that spread through the duct work shut down operations at an ethanol plant for a week. The plants sprinkler system quickly extinguished the fire.

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Ras al-Unuf, Libya: One of Libyas largest oil refineries was damaged when an ethylene tank caught fire.

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Paradip, India: A fire at a chemical plant warehouse storing about 15,000 tons of sulfur caused extensive damage.

Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Chatsworth, CA: An activated sprinkler system at a company that makes labels for CDs ran more than six hours before being discovered.

Sun, 17 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Dundee, Scotland: The area around a cement factory was evacuated when the breakdown of acetylene-powered machinery spawned fear of a gas explosion.

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Atlanta, GA: Eight cars of a 79-car train derailed, leaking about 600 gallons of hexamethylene diamine. A one-mile radius was evacuated.

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Wauwatosa, WI: Fire broke out in the die cast area of an engine plant. No injuries were reported.

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Birmingham, U.K.: Workers evacuated a metal manufacturing plant when a fire involving toxic chemicals broke out.

Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Niagra Falls, NY: Two workers were injured when a small furnace at a graphite plant exploded.

Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Neal, W.V.: Nearby residents were ordered to evacuate when a train transporting LPG derailed while entering a chemical plant.

Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Honolulu, HI: A small fire in a heat exchange unit at an oil refinery was extinguished within 10 minutes by the plant brigade.

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Nashville, TN: Neighbors reported vapor rising from a tanker truck at a chemical plant. The vapor resulted from a small leak of hydrochloric acid during humid weather.

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Fukuoka, Japan: A fire at a chemical plant that started in a machine for winding nylon fibers forced the evacuation of nearly 9,000 residents.

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Toledo, OH: A fire in an oil refinery production unit took nearly three hours to extinguish.

Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Loudon, TN: An accidental release of sodium hydroxide resulted in the evacuation of a paper plant.

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Stockport, U.K.: Cleanup of a gallon of liquid toxic waste spilled from a tanker forced the shutdown of a major motorway.

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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Kingsport, TN: More than 11,000 gallons of liquid plasticiser spilled when two rail cars jumped the tracks near the citys wastewater treatment plant.

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 06:00:00 GMT

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