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Firefighters were waiting for a chemical fire at a Wisconsin plant to burn itself out Friday before trying to enter the site.  It was just too dangerous for us to keep people in there, Eau Claire County Sheriff Ron Cramer told the Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader Telegram.
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A massive explosion at a chemical plant shook an industrial district in Jacksonville, Florida on Wednesday, forcing evacuations and knocking out generators at a nearby electric utility, officials said.
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At least six injured in petroleum plant blast in NW China    LANZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were injured Tuesday in an explosion at a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) chemical plant in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 15--TOWN OF WAUKESHA -- With the growl of a chain saw and the scrape of a sharp blade, Wisconsin on Thursday began its first intensive search for infestations of the emerald ash borer.
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MAKHACHKALA, December 9 (Itar-Tass) - A fire that flared up on the gas pipeline as a result of an explosion, was put out, Tass learnt from a duty officer of the Dagestan Ministry for Emergencies.
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By DAVE SKRETTA  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A small explosion slowed firefighters Thursday as they tried to mop up a fire that devastated a chemical distribution plant a day earlier.
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By Joe Morris  morris@wvgazette.com  The DuPont plant chemical leak and fire that spread a fishy odor over much of the Kanawha Valley on Saturday evening posed no health threat, according to plant officials.
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Chemical vapor that accumulated inside a paint and ink factory fueled the huge explosion that leveled the building and damaging dozens of surrounding homes last fall, according to a preliminary conclusion by federal investigators.
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Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS  Kirov, 22 September: Detoxification of 3,068 aerial bombs containing VX gas is under way at a chemical weapons destruction facility in the village of Maradykovo (Kirov Region). The first line of the facility was commissioned two weeks ago.
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Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday, forcing a broad evacuation as the fire spewed a sticky substance that residents were warned not to touch.
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By Dave Skretta Associated Press  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday, forcing a broad evacuation as the fire spewed a sticky substance that residents were warned not to touch.
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An explosion and fire Monday at a chemical distribution facility northeast of Des Moines sent plumes of thick smoke into the sky and burned out of control for several hours after it ignited.
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The Bhopal disaster in India in 1984 was the world&#39;s worst chemical disaster. Toxic gas leaked from the poorly maintained and understaffed plant owned by Union Carbide, killing up to 20,000 people and leaving 120,000 chronically ill.
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By Christine Dempsey, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 12--STORRS -- A chemical spill Monday morning caused a fire and forced about 200 people to evacuate the new Pharmacy/Biology building at the University of Connecticut.
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MILWAUKEE, Dec. 6 -- An explosion that may have started in a large propane tank flattened an industrial warehouse near downtown Milwaukee on Wednesday, killing at least three people and injuring 46 others, authorities said.
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An explosion Wednesday at a chemical plant shook windows, rattled doors and sent a thick plume of smoke over a section of Jacksonville. Police have cordoned off the area, closed highway exits to the site and are evacuating people.
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By Ron Seely, The Wisconsin State Journal  Sep. 15--High levels of carbon tetrachloride, an industrial carcinogen, have forced the Madison Water Utility to shut down a well that provides drinking water for neighborhoods on the east side of the Isthmus, including East High School.