hazmat

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.

Eleven firefighters and one resident were taken to an area hospital Friday when a noxious combination of cleaning supplies triggered a Level 3 hazardous materials situation at a building in Boston’s South End. The building was evacuated after a combination of bleach and Murphy’s Oil Soap created a noxious, potentially dangerous combination on the third floor of a 5-story rooming...

Emergency crews responded to a Level 2 hazmat at an East Boston home.

A resident and two firefighters were hospitalized Tuesday night after a teenager attempted to make a “colorful smoke bomb” on a stove in Concord, Massachusetts. Police and firefighters responded to a home on Old Bedford Road around 7:45 p.m. When firefighters saw heavy smoke and an unusual substance being cooked on the stove, the Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s Office and a...

A resident and two firefighters were hospitalized Tuesday night after a teenager attempted to make a “colorful smoke bomb” on a stove in Concord, Massachusetts. Police and firefighters responded to a home on Old Bedford Road around 7:45 p.m. When firefighters saw heavy smoke and an unusual substance being cooked on the stove, the Massachusetts Fire Marshal’s Office and a...

An officer and a woman were hospitalized for a possible fentanyl exposure in Boston’s south end neighborhood.

Three police officers were taken to local hospitals for fentanyl exposure overnight Friday following a hazmat response outside a Needham, Massachusetts hotel. Authorities were conducting a routine check of the Residence Inn hotel parking lot at about 1:30 a.m. when they encountered a suspicious car. Although the hotel was evacuated, a portion of the property’s parking lot was blocked off...

A man from New Jersey is facing several charges after drugs he allegedly possessed caused several officers in Spencer, Massachusetts, to become ill. Forty-eight-year-old Scott Yerger appeared in East Brookfield District Court Friday where he was arraigned on charges related to the unlicensed operation of a vehicle and drug possession. Spencer police say Yerger possessed methamphetamine as well as cocaine,...