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The Boston Marriott Copley on Huntington Avenue was evacuated early Monday morning as authorities initiated a death investigation, police said.

A hazardous material response team with the Boston Fire Department was deployed in Cambridge on Wednesday morning, where 12 firefighters were taken to the hospital with chemical burns. Firefighters responded to a call for the smell of smoke in a corner apartment on the fourth floor of 355 Mass Avenue, near the edge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus…

A hazardous material response team with the Boston Fire Department was deployed in Cambridge Wednesday morning, where 12 firefighters were taken to the hospital with chemical burns.

Hazmat crews decontaminated a family and two firefighters Monday night in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood after potential exposure to an unknown chemical. A Brook Street resident opened a package that was delivered to his home Monday and found an unknown chemical inside. He brought it to a nearby fire station at 945 Canterbury Street, prompting a Level 3 hazmat situation. The…

Hazmat crews decontaminated a family and two firefighters Monday night in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood after potential exposure to an unknown chemical.

Crews responded to a hazmat situation Monday night in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood.

More than a dozen emergency services vehicles descended on a Rhode Island manufacturing company Thursday afternoon over what appeared to be a noxious odor that sickened several people. No one was seriously hurt, Pawtucket’s acting public safety director said. The incident was reported at the address of medical parts and electrode manufacturer Bio-Detek on Narragansett Park Drive. Pawtucket firefighters...

A downed utility pole with a transformer was knocked over Monday night in South Boston, spilling around 50 gallons of mineral oil and blocking one of the city’s streets, the Boston Fire Department said.

Fire crews responded around 7:20 p.m. Friday to a Level 3 Hazmat at the rear of 1620 Tremont St. in Roxbury, according to the Boston Fire Department.

A woman was hospitalized Thursday after mixing drain-cleaning chemicals at a hair salon in Whitman, Massachusetts, prompting a hazardous materials response. The woman, who works at Eugene Hair Salon on Temple Street, said she poured Drano and another brand of drain cleaner into the company’s sinks around 2 p.m., according to fire officials. Fumes were sent into the air...

Officials on Friday said a chemical reaction was behind several explosions that rocked a pharmaceutical plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts a day earlier. The Department of Fire Services said in a statement the explosions early Friday at SEQENS, formerly PCI Synthesis, occurred during “a sampling procedure of product from a large vat.” Fire officials responded to the plant at 9 Opportunity…

Authorities responded Thursday morning after several explosions at a chemical plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, blew a hole through the roof and forced the building to be evacuated. Fire officials said they responded to SEQENS, formerly PCI Synthesis, at 9 Opportunity Way after receiving a call at around 4:30 a.m. They “made entry to the building and encountered heavy black smoke…

There was a series of explosions Thursday at a plant in Newburyport.

More than 30 people were hospitalized at a school in Kingston, Massachusetts, Friday, after a teacher detected a nauseating odor, fire officials said. It remains unclear what caused the hazardous materials situation at Silver Lake Regional High School at 260 Pembroke St, but all-clear was given after a thorough search, officials said. “It could be something that the student brought…

An odor prompted a hazardous materials situation at a Kingston, Mass., school Friday. A teacher and several students were taken to a hospital for evaluation.

A hazmat team responded to Storrow Drive Sunday after an overheight truck carrying transformers struck the Longfellow Bridge near Charles Circle, forcing officials to shut down part of the busy Boston parkway. Massachusetts State Police closed Storrow Drive eastbound at Charles Circle and Boston police have been diverting traffic since the 9:40 a.m. incident. The hazmat team was called when…

Route 101 in Epping New Hampshire has reopened after a multi-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer caused a gasoline leak. The crash, which involved a tractor-trailer carrying 11,000 gallons of gas, forced authorities to shut down the road between exits 6 and 7 Monday night as crews removed the mess. At least one person was hospitalized in the crash; the extent…

A common cleaning agent is what killed a Buffalo Wild Wings employee and sickened 10 others in Burlington, Massachusetts.

A hazmat team had to be called to a medical facility Wednesday afternoon in Braintree, Massachusetts, for an accidental chemical spill, according to fire officials. Firefighters responded to Harvard Vanguard on Grossman Drive just after noon for the reported spill of phenol inside one of the surgery rooms, authorities said.