Emergency Responders Get Practice for Fuel Leak
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By Daily Mail photo by Craig Cunningham  Emergency officials from throughout the Kanawha Valley set up a drill on the Kanawha River in downtown Charleston today to practice cleanup techniques for gasoline spills. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Marathon Petroleum Co.
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By Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--It took Palo Alto firefighters almost five hours to contain a sulfuric acid leak at Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center this morning.
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By Dave Greber  MIDDLETOWN  --  Underground gas lines and nearby Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks are making the cleanup of a 10,000-gallon diesel fuel spill difficult, officials from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
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By Stephanie Kiszczak, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Jun. 23--MITCHELL -- Seven fire departments were called out Friday to help extinguish a fire that erupted at J & L Auto Salvage on Illinois Route 111, just off New Poag Road.
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A CHEMICAL leak caused an extra job for fire fighters in Leamington.  Officers went to Heinz Frozen Foods in St Mary's Road at 12.35am yesterday after receiving reports that an unknown quantity of ammonia was leaking from a refrigeration unit.
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Police officers and other emergency personnel respond to the scene of an accident that closed the street near Utah Valley State College in Orem for several hours on Friday. A pickup truck knocked down two trees and a power line.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.
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A number of US trauma centers are taking part in a study of an oxygen-carrying blood substitute designed to be used at the scene of accidents or disasters to increase survival
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Medical team starts work with survivors in a town half destroyed by the earthquake and floods. In the next 48 hours, two MSF staff will make an air assessment of the northeast part of Aceh, using a helicopter
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.
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There are various issues in operating in a disaster environment, usually starting with electrical power but also extending to employee concerns and the need for resupply.
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By Amie Shak Daily Herald Staff Writer  Three people were injured - one seriously - after a chemical spill at a Batavia business Friday night.  Batavia Fire Department officials were called to PPG Industries, 1020 Olympic Drive, at 6:51 p.m.
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Officials shifted their focus from  rescue work to cleanup and protection of marine habitat on  Friday at the site off an Alaskan island where a cargo ship  split apart two days earlier, spilling its fuel oil, and six  crew members went missing.
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CORAL HARBOUR, Nunavut (CP) - An estimated 200 litres of fuel spilled near the northern coastal community of Coral Harbour during a resupply operation Friday, Nunavut officials said.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.
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By Chris Conley, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Dec. 5--Two tanker cars that derailed and spilled a corrosive chemical on  Presidents Island this morning were pulled upright by about 1:30 p.m. and the  leaks sealed, Memphis Fire Department division chief Kenneth Reeves said.
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Fuel leaking from the hull of freighter that broke in two in the Bering Sea is being called a major spill that could take months to clean up.