Thousands evacuated after N. Carolina chemical leak
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Thousands of people were evacuated on Friday from their homes in Apex, North Carolina, after a chemical fire sent a toxic cloud over the Raleigh suburb, emergency officials said.
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Emergency crews on Friday worked to plug  a chlorine leak from a tanker car damaged in a South Carolina  rail accident in which eight people died and more than 300 were  injured.
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As Tropical Storm Gaston moves north through South Carolina, cleanup crews are already tackling downed trees and power lines. More than 125-thousand residents have been without power in South Carolina, where
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Police evacuated about 300 people,  including 200 children, from a New Jersey grammar school on  Friday morning after discovering a suspicious object on a  baseball field, police said.
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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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Authorities evacuated dozens of workers and set up a half-mile perimeter around part of the city's port Wednesday after bomb-sniffing dogs indicated that two shipping containers from Pakistan could contain explosives.
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Emergency services 'came close to collapse' as 3,500 evacuated from swamped homes.
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A train carrying a flammable liquid derailed Monday in a residential neighborhood, and hundreds of people were evacuated along with three schools, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or illness.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.
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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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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak Monday night at a chemical plant on this city's waterfront injured 12 people and prompted the evacuation of the surrounding industrial area, a fire official said.
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Thousands of people were evacuated from a mall Sunday afternoon after noxious fumes of unknown origin sickened people inside, fire officials said.
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Around 50,000 people are evacuated from eastern Comilla district after a dam bursts on a rain-swollen river.
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An explosion and massive fire at a chemical storage facility near downtown Kansas City forced an evacuation and closed nearby roads, authorities and local media reports said on Wednesday.
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Officials in Aiken County have received reports of deaths and injuries after two trains collided Thursday, spilling a hazardous chemical and sending dozens of people to decontamination sites.
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A wind-whipped forest fire forced the evacuation of 60 homes and threatened to burn several houses as smoke billowed above this small city near the South Carolina coast Sunday, officials said.
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By JAYETTE BOLINSKI STAFF WRITER  Employees at the Illinois State Police crime lab on Bruns Lane were evacuated Friday after someone broke a bottle of a hazardous chemical called acetonitrile.  Springfield firefighters were sent to the building about 3:20 p.m.