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Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Unknown Substance Leaks Bring HazMat Response To Boonton Chemical Plant
A hazardous materials team responded to a Boonton chemical plant Wednesday morning after three drums were found to be leaking an unknown substance during a scheduled fire inspection, authorities said. Substance samples from a pair of unlabeled 55-gallon drums and a third marked as flammable, at Adron Inc. on Fanny Road, indicated no direct hazard to the public, Parsippany Police Sgt. Brian Conover said. Parsippany police, Morris County Haz-Mat, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office (Fire and Environmental Unit), NJ Department of Environmental Protection, Rockaway Neck Fire D…
Massapequa, NY
News
Chemical Lab Found In Long Beach Garage Prompting Hazmat Emergency
Police uncovered a chemical lab inside a garage after responding to a home for a report of an unconscious man in Long Beach. The incident unfolded around 8 a.m., Friday, May 10, when police received a call for help regarding the unconscious man at 324 West Beech Street, in Long Beach, police said. Once on the scene, police provided medical assistance to the man before he was transported to an area hospital for treatment, police said. While at the scene potentially hazardous materials were observed by officers, including a beaker containing liquids and a working heat source, police said. T…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Evacuations Ordered After Struck Canister Releases 'Vapor Cloud' Near Hawthorne Ballfield
A "vapor cloud" released when a work crew accidentally punctured a buried canister containing a volatile chemical near a Hawthorne ballfield on Thursday. More than three dozen people were evacuated from nearby homes and businesses while the state DEP recovered the canister, which contained Methyltrichlorosilane, in an auxiliary parking lot, police Detective Sgt. Matthew Hoogmoed said. The chemical, which is "highly flammable and reacts violently with water," Hoogmoed said. "After the canister was punctured, it spilled a yellow tinted fluid into the dirt and a vapor cloud was released," th…
Northern Highlands, NJ
Police & Fire
Firefighters Use Dry Chemicals To Douse Blaze At Upper Saddle River Medical Manufacturer
Firefighters used chemicals to extinguish a fire at the Triangle Manufacturing plant in Upper Saddle River early Thursday. The fire broke out just before 8:30 a.m. in a unit at the Parkway plant that collects aluminum dust, USR Police Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. Water can't douse that type of fire -- and may, instead, cause an explosion, Kane said. Extinguishers containing a dry chemical blend are necessary. Firefighters from Upper Saddle River, Mahwah and Ramsey responded, along with hazardous materials units from Bergen County and Mahwah. Triangle manufactures medical instrum…
Fairfield, CT
News
I-95 Fatal Crash: Details Emerge After Tractor-Trailer Crashes Down Embankment
The driver of a tractor-trailer carrying bottled water has died after the truck crashed off the road and down an embankment on I-95 in Milford. The incident occurred at 6:37 a.m. Friday on the southbound side of the highway between the rest stop and Exit 40, said Capt. Stephen Rabel with the Milford Fire Department. Milford Firefighters arrived on scene and found the tractor-trailer off the road and into the wooded area. The driver of the vehicle, whose name has not yet been released, was pinned in the vehicle and had to be extricated, Rabel said. The extrication was complicated by havin…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Fire Destroys One School Bus, Damages Others In Northern Westchester
A bus was destroyed and two others damaged when a two-alarm fire ripped through a bus storage and repair garage in Yorktown Heights. The fire was reported at 5:09 p.m. Wednesday at the Baumann & Sons Bus Corporation at 1701 Front St., according to the Yorktown Heights Volunteer Fire Department. In addition to damaging the buses, the fire also damaged part of the repair area of the garage and the structure sustained heavy damage as a result of the fire, the fire department reported. During the height of the fire, firefighters were able to mitigate any fuel or hazardous fluids leakage w…
Westport, CT
Police & Fire
Suspicious Package Leads To Emergency Response In Westport
A call regarding a suspicious package emitting a foul odor sent Westport police officers and firefighters to a Riverside Avenue address to investigate the situation. The call came in around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, for the package that had been delivered to the address on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, said Westport Police Lt. Jill Cabana. The building was temporarily evacuated while officials examined the package. "No one who handled the package prior to the arrival of emergency services reported any illness or required medical treatment," she said. The Fairfield County Hazardous Incide…
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Police & Fire
Motorists Pull Driver From Burning Car After Crash On Route 208 In Wyckoff
Motorists bolted from their vehicles and pulled an unconscious driver from a Volvo that burst into flames Monday night after careening off Route 208 in Wyckoff and hitting a boulder and a tree. The 21-year-old Chester, NY driver was taken to a local hospital after his 2006 Volvo crashed between Cedar Hill and Russell avenues around 7:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Soto said. Charges against him were pending, Soto said. Route 208’s northbound lanes were closed until 4:30 a.m. for an investigation and cleanup. The state Department of Environmental Protection also responded “to remove hazardous material…
Bedford, NY
Police & Fire
Tanker Fire Causes Route 22 Closure
Route 22 is shut down in both directions Saturday night in the Town of Amenia between the Amenia Town Hall and the intersection of Route 343 following a tanker fire, the Dutchess County Sheriff’s Office reports just before 9:30 p.m. Traffic can still travel west on Route 44 towards Millbrook and east on Route 343 towards Connecticut. The road closure is due to the brakes on a loaded gasoline tanker catching fire and disabling the vehicle. The tank has not been compromised and there has been no release of hazardous materials. The Amenia and Wassaic Fire Departments extinguished the fire …
Danbury, CT
Police & Fire
Firefighters Rush To Scene Of Blaze After Hearing Explosion In Danbury
Danbury firefighters rushed to the scene of a blaze in town before receiving a dispatch call after hearing an explosion Sunday morning. The firefighters at fire headquarters heard an explosion just before the dispatch went off, said James Gagliardo, communications coordinator of the Danbury Fire Department. When they arrived at Fairlawn Avenue, there was a heavy fire at a two-bay, detached garage. The incident was upgraded to a working fire bringing in additional units to assist. The garage had hazardous materials inside in the form of oxygen and propane tanks for a glass blowing operation…
Pascack Valley, NJ
Police & Fire
Responders Clear Roofing Glue Fumes From HackensackUMC At Pascack
UPDATE: Firefighters used fans to clear noxious fumes Saturday from a section of HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley caused by chemicals used in roofing glue. Workers were working on a roof of the hospital on Old Hook Road in Westwood when the incident occurred, sickening several people. Police, firefighters and a Bergen County hazardous materials unit were summoned just after 12:30 p.m. Ramsey Rescue sent the decontamination unit in case any workers or others were exposed to the chemicals. Ambulances were also put on standby before it was determined that evacuations weren't necessary.
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Police & Fire
Ramsey Rescue Clears Chlorine-Laced Trash That Fell From Truck Near School
Hazardous materials technicians from the Ramsey Rescue squad cleared a pile of chlorine-laced trash that fell off the back of a garbage truck near an elementary school on Monday. Ramsey police, firefighters and Ambulance Corps members also responded to the Island Avenue incident near the Wesley D. Tisdale School. So did their colleagues from OEM, DPW and a Bergen County Hazmat team. "The scene has been mitigated without incident," the rescue squad reported. There were no injuries, the squad said.
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