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A routine industrial process led to an unintentional release of hydrogen chloride vapor, prompting a hazmat response by the Columbia Fire Department.

Danbury Fire Capt. Kevin Lunnie said the department's hazmat team responded to a hydrogen chloride leak at a business on Wooster Heights Road.

This operation resulted not only in the release of highly toxic vinyl chloride but also in the formation of extremely hazardous combustion products, particularly the gases hydrogen chloride 4 and ...

News coverage of the East Palestine train derailment has ranged from hysteria to hysteria. One would think that one of the most dangerous chemicals in the world is being discharged from the train. Has ...

Two weeks after emergency responders released vinyl chloride from tanker cars in East Palestine, Ohio, questions about the presence of toxic pollutants known as 'dioxins' lingered.

Find out what chemicals spilled and later burned near East Palestine, Ohio, in the train derailment and the impact on the community.

Vinyl chloride is a highly flammable chlorinated hydrocarbon that may emit toxic fumes of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen chloride and phosgene when heated to decomposition. Exposure affects ...