Wash. Chlorine Leak Prompts Evacuations
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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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Employees at the U.S. State Department briefly evacuated the building on Friday after a fault in the fire detection system apparently triggered an alarm, a U.S. official said.
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As many as 75,000 people may have drunk water contaminated by dry cleaning fluid at the Marine base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
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Part of a prison in Kent is evacuated after evidence of Legionella bacteria is detected in the water system.
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Toxic chlorine pollutants were found at unsafe levels in 40 percent of D.C. tap water samples tested this spring during the water utility's annual chlorine surge, according to a national environmental group's report to be released today.
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A deadly chlorine leak has added momentum to local efforts to curb chemical hazards.
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About 2,500 people were ordered to  evacuate their homes in Southern California on Friday when a  106-foot high dam began leaking after two weeks of rain.
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State officials today urged people to stay where they were because of the possibility of flooding, but not everyone heeded the warning.
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Thousands of residents evacuated from their homes after chlorine gas leaked from a train wreck more than a week ago were back in their homes Saturday, but hundreds more waited to return.
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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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Authorities released a fierce, brown river of water from a Southern California dam and evacuated more than 1,000 people from its path Friday after a temporary earthen barrier at the site began seeping water.
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An accidental chemical release from Valero Energy Corp.'s Houston refinery on Wednesday sickened dozens of workers and triggered a warning for nearby residents to evacuate.
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A town in Ohio brought out snowplows and fire hoses Monday to clear the muck away. In New Jersey, the Statehouse was closed after its parking garage was flooded by the Delaware River.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The government evacuated a popular visitor center near Mount St. Helens in Washington state Saturday after the second steam eruption in two days signaled stepped-up seismic activity and a potential hazard to life and property.
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Rainwater building up behind a dam prompted authorities to order the evacuation of more than 800 homes in Riverside County early Friday.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Dec. 15--Customers of the Browns Ferry Water District in central Georgetown County were advised late Thursday to boil their water before drinking it or use bottled water because E. coli was found in the water.
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A rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water of two reservoirs that supply drinking water to the city with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.