Mass. explosion site checked for safety
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Investigators got their first close-up look Friday at a chemical plant leveled by an explosion, saying the damage was so extensive that they don't know the precise point of the blast.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  A decade into the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the Santa Susana Field Lab, the Department of Energy has begun consulting with state and federal environmental regulators on decontamination of the site's last buildings.
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Police say the blast occurred less than 90 minutes after a previous explosion at the same site injured seven other people. The police had been conducting forensic research at the site of a bomb blast in the
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Explosions and fire at a hazardous waste management facility prompted town officials to evacuate about 5,000 residents living within a mile of the plant as a precautionary measure early Friday.
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A small chemical explosion was reported Monday in the building that houses Fox News, officials said. One person was injured.
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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Fire and emergency crews responded to the scene of a suspected steam explosion near Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, officials said.
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A government office building that caught fire in the White House complex was evacuated safely and no injuries were reported, a White House spokesman said.
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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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An explosion rocked an Army ammunition plant Wednesday, causing at least one serious injury, authorities said.
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TEHRAN -- An explosion in a southern city some 110 miles from a nuclear facility sparked fears yesterday of a missile attack, and Iranian authorities gave conflicting explanations for the blast, including friendly fire in a military area and construction work.
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By Lou Grieco Staff Writer  DAYTON -- A Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judge has found that operators of Isotec, the site of a 2003 explosion that evacuated a neighborhood, were negligent.  "We can go to trial and just talk about damages," attorney Richard W. Schulte said.
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A small explosion was heard near a U.S. military base in Japan but there were no reports of any injuries, a police spokesman said early on Tuesday.
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By SARAH ANTONACCI STAFF WRITER  The explosion at the Illiopolis Formosa Plastics plant that killed five workers almost three years ago might have been prevented if the facility's owners had strengthened safety protections, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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Accident investigators said Monday that their preliminary probe into a fatal high-speed train derailment was focusing on a pair of points just ahead of the site.
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Explosives experts are investigating the source of a single, large explosion on a US base in southwest Mosul, Iraq, Task Force Olympia Commander Army Brig.
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Police said at least four suspicious devices found separately around Boston on Wednesday were not explosives following a security scare that triggered the closure of the Charles River along with two major bridges.