Dust a concern after pipe explosion
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New York officials said today that a deadly steam pipe explosion did not leave asbestos in the air but that the substance was found in some solid debris and dust. The blast Wednesday in midtown Manhattan sent plumes of steam and ash into the air. One person died.
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An explosion has ripped through a section of a pipeline near the Baiji refinery in northern Iraq. Witnesses say the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
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EDMONTON (CP) - Fire crews extinguished a blazing gas well Tuesday night that had burst into flame shortly after hundreds of people who had been evacuated returned to their homes.
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There was no immediate word on the cause of the explosion.
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With the cleanup from a deadly steam pipe explosion expected to drag on for days, businesses in the "frozen zone" could lose hundreds of millions of dollars, a business leader said Friday.
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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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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak at a waterfront chemical plant injured 12 people who inhaled fumes, and prompted authorities to evacuate the area overnight.  Workers were filling a 1,000-gallon tank with the chemical at Pioneer Americas Inc.
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A full-scale emergency is declared over at the scene of a ruptured gas pipeline in Belfast.
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Debris from an explosion of an aging steam pipe in midtown Manhattan contained asbestos, New York authorities said on Thursday, but no airborne samples of the dangerous mineral fiber were detected.
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By DAVE SKRETTA  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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One person was killed and one person injured when a pipeline carrying natural gas to the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states recently hard hit by winter storms exploded in northeast Louisiana, at about 1 p.m. CST (1900 GMT), according to local media reports.
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An apparent utility malfunction on   Thursday caused an underground explosion that forced the   evacuation of several high-rise buildings in central   Philadelphia, Fox television news reported.
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Montgomery County firefighters responded to Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring this morning after a construction worker found what he thought might be the remains of a pipe bomb but instead it turned out to be an item known as an improvised launching device.
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About 70 percent of the rescue workers   who picked through the toxic debris of the World Trade Center   after the September 11 attacks suffered respiratory problems, a   study released on Tuesday said.
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NEW YORK -- Panicked residents fear a partially dismantled building where a recent blaze killed two firefighters and stripped away protective coverings may be releasing some of the toxic contaminants that blanketed the neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2001.
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The area near Wednesdayâs steam pipe explosion regained a bit of its bustle Saturday, as city officials reopened some streets and cleanup continued.
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - Two more bodies were found on Friday near the scene of a gas pipeline explosion in Indonesia's East Java province which was linked to a devastating mudflow, pushing the death toll from the incident to 10.