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Emergency! What To Do When It’s Not TV

With the arrival of cooler weather there’s a lot to look forward to: holidays and football games, for example. This means more time on the ...
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Have You Thanked Your “Cells Force” Lately?

A hospital maintenance crew is somewhat akin to a human body: trillions of activities take place on the cellular level every second of every day, ...
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Grease Is the Word!

Grease. It was a highly successful movie, but it’s not so entertaining in your Bar-B-Q palace. You want to perfectly charbroil your customers’ meals, not ...
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Make Labor Day Yummy Without the Worry

Labor Day is looming. Observed the first Monday in September in the U.S., the annual holiday signals the symbolic end of summer: back to school ...
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Rock On With Easy Concert Clean Up!

It’s the perfect season for concerts: summer is almost over, and there’s time for one last hurrah before buckling down to school or work. Given ...
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Automatic Auto Shop Spill Solutions

Auto repair shops are known for being greasier than the most indulgent French Fries. Greasier than a teenager’s acne. Greasier than the wheels of industry. ...
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Food for Thought: A Better Way to Sweep Away Spills

Restaurant servers have a challenging job. Not only do they need to endlessly recite a list of mouth-watering and sometimes strange-sounding foods they don’t get ...
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How to Be “Marine Green” This Summer

There’s nothing like spending a summer day on the water. Especially if this happens to be your place of business. But whether you run boat ...
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General Guidelines for Spill Containment and Clean Up

In case of chemical or oil spills, the responsibility of a prompt and appropriate clean-up lies on the individual or party that caused the spill. ...
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Keeping School Safe from Spills and Indigestion

Any teacher or school administrator knows it goes with the territory: at some point, a child is going develop tummy trouble and not be able ...
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Toxic Spill Containment in the Home

You may not realize it, but your home is full of toxic substances. The average household stores paint, drain cleaner, household cleansers, pesticides, gasoline, oil ...
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Maine industrial cleaning company suffers chemical spill

A June 3, 2012, chemical leak at a Scarborough, Maine, industrial cleaning business took its toll on three workers, as they were sent to a ...
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Chemical spill impacts Oregon dairy plant

Employees at a Portland, Oregon, dairy plant saw the impact of a chemical spill, when a leak occurred on May 30, 2012, and sickened 11 ...
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Fire erupts in Manteca pool shop

A strong chemical odor inside a local pool shop in Manteca, California, caused a blaze to erupt in the community, the Manteca Bulletin reports.
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Sinkholes cause concern around the Alabama Point

Public-safety is an ongoing concern in Orange Beach, Alabama, as severe erosion around the Alabama Point seawall continues to threaten passersby, AL.com reports.
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Chemical spill closes Highway 2 in Lincoln, NE

An accident on Highway 2 in Lincoln, Nebraska, involving two large trucks caused a hazardous chemical to leak onto the roadway, the Associated Press reports.
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Erosion threatens a home in Canton, Georgia

A single mother of two living in Canton, Georgia, is experiencing problems with her own backyard, CBS Atlanta reports.
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Chemical leak in Baton Rouge goes undetected by facility monitoring system

Officials at the Honeywell chemical plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are investigating the cause of a leak at their facility, The Republic reports.
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Lebanon High School students were sent home after a chemical spill on Friday

A chemical leak at Lebanon High School in Lebanon, Indiana, on May 11, 2012, forced an evacuation of the campus, TheIndyChannel.com reports.
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Nonhazardous chemical spill in Bryan County grabs local attention

A chemical spill in Bryan County, Oklahoma, sent emergency officials and local residents scrambling on May 1, 2012, KTEN reports.
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A chemical leak caused concern in Norton, MA

In late April, a portion of North Worcester Street in Norton, Massachusetts, was closed for over three hours after water department employees discovered a gas ...
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Unidentifiable chemical causes concern at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Students at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) on the South Side reported a potential acid spill on Tuesday, May 9, 2012, the Chicago Sun-Times ...
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Unknown chemical causes officials to evacuate locals in Beaufort County

In Beaufort County, South Carolina, residents have been evacuated, and the Sheldon Fire District has requested assistance from surrounding firefighters in response to a chemical ...
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Officials begin investigating a possible oil spill in the Arkansas River

The Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers are examining the Arkansas River in Barling, Arkansas, after a rainbow-color sheen was reported in the ...
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XSORB used to clean up after hundreds of gallons of paint are spilled.

A forklift dropped a couple hundred gallons of white paint across a road in San Luis Obispo Monday. All things considered, though, it happened in ...
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Oil spill clogs traffic in Youngsville

In Youngsville, Louisiana, a local road was shut down on April 9, 2012, after a bucket of oil fell off of a truck, reports KATC ...
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Chemical spill in St. Lucas results in small evacuation

An evacuation in St. Lucas, Iowa, came after two anhydrous ammonia tanks broke loose from the truck that was towing them on April 6, 2012, ...
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Chemical leak shuts down main streets in Iowa

In Ankeny, Iowa, the local fire department was called to maintain a large chemical spill on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, reports KCCI.com.
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Trained employees resolve chemical spill in Washington

A Westport Shipyard building in Port Angeles, Washington, was briefly evacuated Wednesday, April 4, 2012, due to a small chemical spill and fire, reports the ...
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Hazardous gas causes panic in California

In Concord, California, a Costco store was evacuated on March 25, 2012, after a potentially deadly refrigerant leak, reports KTVU.com.
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