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Pre-Dawn Chemical Plant Fire Extinguished Near Meadowlands Pre-Dawn Chemical Plant Fire Extinguished Near Meadowlands
Pre-Dawn Chemical Plant Fire Extinguished Near Meadowlands A Bergen County Hazardous Materials Unit was summoned to an overnight fire at a chemical plant in East Rutherford. The blaze at Diamond Chemical Company on Dubois Street at Union Avenue just off northbound Route 17 ignited shortly after 3:30 a.m. Firefighters had the main body knocked down within minutes. Officials declared it under control less than an hour later. No injuries were reported. It was the third incident in less than three years at Diamond Chemical, which manufactures cleaning and sanitizing products for various industrial and institutional uses -- including laundry, hous…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Machine Running In East Rutherford Chemical Plant Evacuation Sparks Fire, 2 Hospitalized Machine Running In East Rutherford Chemical Plant Evacuation Sparks Fire, 2 Hospitalized
Machine Running In East Rutherford Chemical Plant Evacuation Sparks Fire, 2 Hospitalized A machine left running while an East Rutherford plant was being evacuated for a chemical spill sparked a fire sending two people to the hospital with minor injuries Thursday, authorities said. A vapor cloud and fumes that people in the area said smelled like chlorine were reported at the Diamond Chemical Company around 1:30 p.m. Homes and businesses were evacuated in the area surrounding Diamond Chemical, located at the corner of East Union and Dubois Street. Shelters-in-place advised on the east side of Rutherford from Ridge Road to Meadow Road and in Lyndhurst east of Orient Wa…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Unknown Substance Leaks Bring HazMat Response To Boonton Chemical Plant Unknown Substance Leaks Bring HazMat Response To Boonton Chemical Plant
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…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Evacuations Ordered After Struck Canister Releases 'Vapor Cloud' Near Hawthorne Ballfield Evacuations Ordered After Struck Canister Releases 'Vapor Cloud' Near Hawthorne Ballfield
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…

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by Jerry DeMarco