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December 31, 2011
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Always Put The Paint In the Boot…….

Note to self:  Always put the paint in the boot!!!

The people in the blue car had a 25-litre (5 gallon) bucket of paint on the
back seat when they had the accident.


The ambulance driver wouldn’t let the female paramedic out of the ambulance
Because she couldn’t stop laughing — he said it wasn’t professional.

He treated the sad looking driver – apparently, he was overcome with emulsion.

December 30, 2011
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fuel spill news

 

 

FAA fuel spill in Aurora cleared from Fox River
Chicago Daily Herald
By Jessica Cilella and Tara Garcia Mathewson Only a faint smell of diesel remained Thursday on the Fox River after more than 1400 gallons of fuel spilled a day earlier into a storm sewer that discharges into the waterway. …
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Cleanup underway after fuel spill in Hudson Falls
YNN Hudson Valley
According to Diamond, surveillance footage showed a woman striking a fuel pump with her car, which triggered the spill. It went unnoticed until another customer reported it shortly before 7:30. “It could be a situation where they didn’t even know it,” …
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Riverkeeper: Tar River Fuel Spill Can Be Educational Moment
WITN
So anything that might be dumped down whether it’s fuel, paint, or anything goes directly into a stream or river system. This can be dangerous to the river’s health and the people and creatures that need it. “The Tar River itself has about 4 to 500000 …
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Chief: Leaking gas pump should have “shut off” on its own
WNYT
“His involvement in this is really minimal,” Diamond said, referring to his belief that the collision should not have caused such a massive spill. Vadnais admitted to police that he had consumed one or two beers earlier in the night, Diamond said, …
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Fishing vessel sinks in fire near Big Carlos Pass
The News-Press
There were 500 gallons of fuel on the boat when it sank, and spill containment barriers were brought to the scene as a precaution, but there were no reports of spills or sheen, according to Jon-Paul Rios with the Coast Guard. Firefighters from Sanibel …
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April-June 2011: Mom accused of shooting sons; twisters strike Alabama; Peach …
Clanton Advertiser
Interstate 65 was closed from Exit 212 and 219 for several hours May 21 after a fuel tanker overturned. The truck’s driver was carried to a hospital with minor injuries, but getting the truck right-side-up and cleaning up the little fuel that did spill …
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Teen charged in connection with theft from parked car
The Keene Sentinel
5:46 pm, Peterborough Fire Department to Main Street, odor investigation, caused by refrigerator. 7:25 pm, Rindge Fire Department to Route 119, fire alarm. 8:27 pm, Peterborough Fire Department to Elm Street, fuel spill, transmission fluid in roadway. …
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Locomotive derails in East Providence
Turn to 10.com
A locomotive and a boxcar derailed in East Providence on Thursday, blocking street traffic but causing no reported injuries or fuel spills. East Providence Police Lt. Jim Nelson said the Providence & Worcester locomotive came off the tracks near the …
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Returning Home in the EV, Priceless
Clean Energy News (blog)
We also educated a few people along the way about cleaner cars and most importantly did what the BP Gulf spill , the Oil Sands and XL Pipeline screams for us to do: accelerate the development of technology that will get us out of the death spiral our …
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December 29, 2011
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Fuel Spill News

Fire Blotter: Firefighters Clean Up Fuel Spill
Patch.com
Firefighters also responded to a fuel spill at a car accident. By Akiko Oda On Dec. 14, firefighters responded to a fuel spill. They arrived to find a vehicle accident with one car on its roof, leaking fluids. There was significant damage to the …
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Washington County crews on scene of gas spill
WNYT
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Crews in Hudson Falls are on the scene of a fuel spill at the Cumberland Farms on Main Street. It started when a car hit one of the gas pumps. We’re told more than 100 gallons of fuel leaked, flowing into the fuel system. …
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WNYT
Oil is more toxic than previously thought, study finds
Los Angeles Times
The study, spearheaded by the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory in collaboration with NOAA, looked into the aftermath of the 2007 Cusco Busan spill, when that tanker hit the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled 54000 gallons of bunker fuel into …
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Los Angeles Times
Fears Fuel Rise in Oil Prices
AdvisorOne
Also driving worries, in addition to the Nigerian oil spill and production shutdown coupled with bomb attacks on Christmas, as previously reported by AdvisorOne.com, were outbreaks of violence in Iraq, where on Monday a suicide car bomber killed seven …
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Small plane crashes in Concord, injuring 2
San Francisco Examiner
There was no fuel spill or fire as a result of the fire, and the plane did not appear to hit any structures or vehicles, Kirby said. The crash victims were transported via ambulance to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek to be treated for their …
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San Francisco Examiner
Cessna makes emergency landing in Sugar Land
Houston Chronicle (blog)
A twin-engine Cessna made an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon at the Sugar Land Airport without its landing gear down, KTRK-TV reports on its website. No one was injured, but the runway was closed as crews try to clear a fuel spill from the landing. …
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Weapons-grade uranium shipments quietly heading south
Globe and Mail
The two biggest threats posed by the transport of the material are the catastrophe that could result from an accident or spill, and the interest that terrorist organizations may have in stealing it for use in weapons of mass destruction. …
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Globe and Mail
David Cameron could regret his anti-alcohol crusade
Telegraph.co.uk
But most problem drinkers will not be deterred by putting a few pennies on a can of lager – while those lairy souls who spill out on to the streets of our town centres of a Friday or Saturday evening have generally been paying full price for the …
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Telegraph.co.uk
Groundwater recovery: the silver lining has a cloud
Albuquerque Journal (subscription) (blog)
As the pumping is reduced and groundwater levels rise, the water is submerging the soil layer beneath southeast Albuquerque that has been contaminated by an old Kirtland Air Force Base jet fuel spill. It’s a no-win situation. Reduced pumping means the …
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