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Entries for November 2010
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Winnsboro, LA: Eleven fire departments responded to a fire at a rubber recycling plant. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Connersville, IN: A fire in an abandoned factory threatened to spread to a chemical plant next door. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Salem, VA: A tire plant worker was treated after his arm became stuck in a machine. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Moti Nagar, India: Fire broke out in a sofa manufacturing plant. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Great Staughton, UK: Propane cylinders caught fire at an industrial unit making chicken coops, killing 30 chickens. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Amreli, India: Fire broke out in a container freight station near the shipyards. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Sharjah, UAE: Fire gutted five warehouses and a plastics factory. More information |
Sunday
Nov 07 |
Dong Thanh, Vietnam: Two people overcome by gas upon entering the biogas storage at a livestock farm died. More information |
Saturday
Nov 06 |
Nagalekeni, India: Fire spread through a factory making lubricants for cars and machines. More information |
Saturday
Nov 06 |
St. Stephens, SC: Built-up saw dust ignited in a fire at a particle board plant.
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Saturday
Nov 06 |
Oxnard, CA: A small ammonia leak from a power plant sent fumes wafting across a towing yard. More information |
Saturday
Nov 06 |
Coshocton, OH: Insulation on a distillation tower caught fire at a plant that produces nutraceuticals for use in processed foods. More information |
Saturday
Nov 06 |
Panaji, India: A factory manufacturing stationery products was gutted after a fire broke out.
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Saturday
Nov 06 |
Wahpeton, ND: An overnight fire caused minor damage to a factory that makes board materials out of wheat straw. More information |
Saturday
Nov 06 |
Bainbridge, WA: An electrical short forced the evacuation of a sports fishing equipment factory. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Pittsburg, CA: Firefighters extinguished a three-alarm fire that broke out at an industrial warehouse. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Coolaroo, Australia: Fire spread through two warehouse sheds containing thousands of tons of recycled paper. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Jim Thorpe, PA: Investigators are looking for the cause of a fire that damaged an abandoned factory. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Springdale, AR: A brief fire broke out in the ventilation system at a tool plant. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Turlock, CA: A fire that started in a printing machine spread to the roof of a paper plant.
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Friday
Nov 05 |
San Diego, CA: A leak of jet fuel at a turbine engine plant prompted an evacuation lasting several hours. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Newton Aycliffe, UK: An explosion followed by fire swept a warehouse at a factory making toiletries. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Melbourne, Australia: Eighty firefighters battled for more than two hours to control a fire at a recycled paper factory. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Bastrop, LA: Fire burned for more than 14 hours at a manufacturing plant specializing in wood products for the paper industry. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Sisseton, SC: A fire at a poultry processing plant was confined to the boiler room. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Cannock, UK: Twelve people had to be decontaminated after a chemical explosion at a waste facility. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Malta, NY: A hydraulic lift caught fire at a computer chip factory. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Maddingley, Australia: Crews are mopping up a fire that burnt hundreds of drums of fish fertilizer. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Cao Bang, Vietnam: A dike containing the waste sludge generated at an iron ore mine broke, releasing thousands of cubic metres of red mud. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Indore, India: A small fire broke out at a polymerization plant. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Antwerp, Belgium: Workers were evacuated from an olefins plant when flaring failed to ignite following a process upset in a naphtha cracker. More information |
Friday
Nov 05 |
Taranto, Italy: A worker at a biotech facility fell to his death while working on an empty tank. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Liskeard, UK: A drum containing corrosive sodium hydroxide split open at an industrial estate, requiring a haz mat response. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Jeedimetla, India: Flames erupted while a reactor vessel was being cleaned at a chemical plant, injuring four. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Baton Rouge, LA: A contract worker doing maintenance at a chemical plant was injured in a crane accident. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Lawrence County, PA: Work with a cutting torch ignited a fire that spread to the roof of a metals factory. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Richfield, WI: A carbon monoxide leak at a carton plant resulted in 19 people being taken to the hospital. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Sao Paulo, Brazil: One person died and three people were seriously injured in a fire caused by the explosion of an oil clarifier at a lubricant company. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
San Antonio, TX: Debris caught fire on the roof of a warehouse at a box factory. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Forsyth County, GA: A worker at a water plant died after being trapped beneath overturned machinery. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
North Dumfries, ON: Schools downwind kept children indoors when a fire broke out at an environmental services waste-transfer building. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Cambridge, ON: Fire destroyed a warehouse for an electronics company. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Corpus Christi, TX: Responders were called to an oil refinery to investigate a hydrocarbon spill. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Paderno Dugnano, Italy: Seven people were injured in a blast and a fire at a toxic waste disposal plant. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Fresno, CA: Five workers at a food processing plant are recovering after a chemical spill. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Ayr, ON: Oily waste products being processed caught fire at a recycling plant. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Mount Maunganui, NZ: Firefighters used a forklift to remove burning bundles of timber from a timber treatment plant. More information |
Thursday
Nov 04 |
Crawley, UK: Fire spread through a packing plant on an industrial estate. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 03 |
Hussainpura, India: Fire broke out in heated oil drums at a soap factory. More information |
Wednesday
Nov 03 |
Hoylake, UK: Fire broke out in a storage room at a vinyl siding factory. More information |
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