Industrial Fire World

Gibraltar: An explosion at a waste treatment facility injured two workers.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Burlington, NC: A firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion battling a machine fire at a textile mill.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Deposit, NY: An electrical fire broke out at a wood pellet factory.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Canton, MS: A grease pit behind a poultry processing plant caught fire, igniting nearby brush.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Springfield, OH: Fire swept through a vacant printing plant building undergoing a court ordered cleanup.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Kundaim, India: A welder working at a local factory died when a gas cylinder exploded.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Rocklin, CA: Fire broke out at a particle board factory.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Wednesfield, UK: Firefighters rescued one person from a fire at a derelict factory.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Barrancabermeja, Colombia: At least 10 workers were affected by fumes reported at a chemical plant manufacturing acid.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Yarraville, Australia: Two fires broke out within five days at an abandoned textile mill that has become a teen hangout.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Grand Island, NB: A storm damaged fire protection systems at a tractor plant, requiring local firefighters to stand by at the site.

Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Desouk, Egypt: More than 900 people were affected when chlorine leaked from a cylinder being scrapped.

Mon, 30 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Winfield, KS: Fire damaged plastic-molding machinery at a plant specializing in kitchen containers.

Mon, 30 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Byron Bay, Australia: Firefighters prevented an equipment fire at a furniture factory from spreading to the inventory.

Mon, 30 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Fort McMurray, ON: A forest fire burning out of control has stopped work at the Kearl oilsands site.

Mon, 30 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Los Angeles, CA: Fire broke out at a piñata factory and party supply business, trapping one person and injuring a firefighter.

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Morris, IL: A fire at a chemical plant forced over 100 nearby residences to be evacuated.

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Stuart, FL: Fire broke out Sunday night in a building where used vegetable oil is refined into biofuel for diesel engines.

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia: An underground oil tank at an oil depot exploded during welding work, killing three people.

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Severance, KS: A 591,000-barrel-per-day oil pipeline was shut down after a half-inch fitting broke, spilling about 10 barrels.

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Port Manatee, FL: A protective lining for an abandoned gypsum stack at a phosphate plant has torn, allowing potentially contaminated seawater to gush from the site.

Sun, 29 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Osijek, Croatia: Five people were hurt in an explosion in a plastics plant.

Sat, 28 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Oettingen, Germany: A burst valve on a high pressure pipeline at a brewery sent beer spewing nearly six feet high.

Sat, 28 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Hudson, NC: A wood finishing plant that caught fire is scheduled to reopen after Memorial Day.

Sat, 28 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Coushatta, LA: A compressor station explosion at a natural gas site killed one person.

Sat, 28 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Zibo City, China: Three people died in an explosion at a chemical plant.

Sat, 28 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Visalia, CA: A four-alarm fire broke out in a food processing plant.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Carlisle, PA: A back-up generator at a wastewater treatment plant caught fire when the main generator was knocked out by a storm.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Ottawa, ON: Chemical fumes released from a wastewater treatment system made three workers at the Royal Canadian Mint ill.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Manitowoc, WI: Sulfuric acid spilled at a telephone exchange when emergency batteries being moved by crane were dropped.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Rotterdam, Netherlands: Nearly 15 tons of calcium hydroxide spilled when a hose broke as it was being unloaded.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Texas City, TX: A broken insulator on a power line created an outage that left area chemical plants in the dark for a couple of hours.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Gallatin, TN: Four people were injured and another later died due to an explosion at a metal powders plant that was the scene of a fatality accident in January.

Fri, 27 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Daini, Japan: An electrical fire was quickly extinguished at a nuclear power plant only 10 kilometres from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi facility.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Beaumont, TX: A bus transporting contract workers at a refinery caught fire and burned.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Balli, India: Two persons were killed after a factory was set on fire by irate locals.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Harris County, TX: One worker suffered burns in a fire at a warehouse storing chemicals.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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New Haven, CT: An ammonia leak was reported at a food distribution facility.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Visalia, CA: Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a dairy and food processing plant.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Salem, OH: Molten metal escaped from a damaged furnace at a foundry.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Morinville, AB: A bearing fire in a dust controller fan threatened to escalate at a seed cleaning plant.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Toledo, OH: A release of materials from an oil refinery coker drum was attributed to a faulty motor-operated valve.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Carson, CA: A mechanical issue at an oil refinery led to the release of an unknown amount of sulfur oxide.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Wilson County, TX: No injuries were reported when a 20-inch natural gas pipeline ruptured.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Buchanan County, MO: Hydrochloric acid spilling from a railcar triggered an area evacuation.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Cape Sable Island, NS: A fire at a fish processing plant is expected to put more than 50 people out of work for more than a month.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Hickory, NC: Fire broke out in the dust collection system at a furniture plant.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Shostka, Ukraine: Two people were killed and one injured in an explosion at an ammunition disposal plant

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Buchanon County, MO: A mandatory evacuation was ordered for a quarter mile radius after acid was discovered spilling from a railcar.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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Eko, Nigeria: At least 20 people died in a pipeline explosion that the owners attributed to vandalism.

Thu, 26 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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