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Suspicious substance that forces Weber State evacuation determined to be plaster

Last updated Friday, April 26, 2013 - 5:38am

OGDEN — A small quantity of non-toxic plaster discovered on a desk forced a 90-minute evacuation Thursday of Weber State University’s Engineering and Technology Building.

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Hazmat crews respond to Provo spill

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 10:44am

PROVO -- Several blocks were closed off around a chemical company in Provo while firefighters and a Hazmat crew responded to a chemical spill.

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Employees of Alpha Transport Inc. clean up a diesel fuel spill at the Freeport Center in Clearfield on Monday. (KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner)

Quick work confines fuel spill at Freeport Center

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 1:12am

CLEARFIELD — The quick thinking and actions of a Lifetime Products Inc., employee stopped about 50 gallons of diesel fuel from entering into the storm drain, firefighters say.

“Major kudos to Brett Gardiner,” said North Davis Metro Fire Capt. Chris Tremea.

Gardiner witnessed a semitrailer run over some pipes on the north side of Building F-11 at the Freeport Center on Monday morning.

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FBI, hazmat check item sent to Utah tribal court

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 9:24am

FORT DUCHESNE— Authorities say the FBI is investigating what sickened two people who came into contact with a document sent to the office of the Ute Tribal Court in Fort Duchesne.

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NSL road closed, worker treated after fluoride reaction creates toxic fumes

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 3, 2012 - 5:33pm

NORTH SALT LAKE — One city employee has been taken to a local hospital after a chemical reaction to fluoride that was being delivered to the North Salt Lake water plant, said South Davis Metro Fire Agency Chief Jim Rampton.

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Emergency crews respond to a hazmat situation at Weber State Univeristy in Ogden Tuesday, November 27, 2012. (Charles Trentelman/Standard-Examiner)

Fumes cause hazmat response at WSU

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 2:41pm

OGDEN — One gallon of chlorine mixed with 55 gallons of sulfuric acid brought hazmat crews to Weber State University Tuesday.

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Tooele County budget cuts impact hazmat division

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 8, 2012 - 10:42am

SALT LAKE CITY — Officials are trimming costs for the division that handles hazardous materials in Tooele County because of declining revenues.

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State awaits Hill's response to report on mercury spill

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 10:36pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Even though a mercury spill went unreported and was improperly cleaned up, with the remaining liquid stored improperly, the public was not in danger, officials say.

Scott Anderson, director of Utah’s Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, said that after his department conducted compliance inspections at Hill Air Force Base in September and October, it was clear the mercury posed no threat to those on base, nor to residents nearby.

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Troy Eugene Williams, suspect in a robbery in Mesquite and a carjacking.

I-15 closed in Ariz. after bank robbery, suicide

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 11:24am

MESQUITE, Nev. — A stretch of Interstate 15 in northwest Arizona has been reopened after it was closed in an investigation into possible hazardous materials in a vehicle that a man carjacked and then killed himself in after robbing a Nevada bank.

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Hazmat team responds to 'chemical suicide'

Sanjay Bhatt, Sara Jean Green The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, October 3, 2011 - 8:41am

BREMERTON, Wash -- A hazardous-materials team and bomb squad were called Sunday morning to the parking lot of a church in the East Bremerton, Wash., area, where a man's body was found in a pickup along with a sign on the driver's window warning people to steer clear of the vehicle because of a deadly gas.

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