Al Baker (NYT) FORT EDWARD: TOWN EVACUATED About 800 residents were evacuated from their homes Tuesday night and 25 were treated at hospitals, mostly for respiratory problems, after a rail car began leaking ammonia vapor in Fort Edward, a town 43 miles northeast of Albany.
Two hours later, a large explosion occurred when leaking gasoline vapor ignited and it knocked out all power on the ship.
But the bulbs can leak mercury vapor when broken, so ventilation is important when cleaning a broken bulb, the council says in its paper.
The group also found that plastic bags leaked mercury vapor.
The rail car, bound for a paper mill, began leaking anhydrous ammonia vapor through a faulty gasket Tuesday night.
She was called Lady Sydenham, and she had this house called Lamberhurst Priory, and she had read somewhere that electricity leaked electric vapors out of the plugs, so a maid had to go round every night and take out the plugs and put in a sort of stopper to stop the vapors seeping out.
Chemical vapors leaking from a reactor used to make a paint additive are the likely cause of a Jan . 31plant explosion in Morgantown that killed one man and injured 12 others, a federal investigator said.
Vapors from leaking aviation gasoline tanks sparked a series of explosions and fires that could not be controlled, and the carrier had to be scuttled by an American destroyer on the evening of 8 May to prevent her capture.
Vapors from leaking aviation gasoline tanks sparked a series of explosions and fires that could not be controlled, and Lexington had to be scuttled by an American destroyer during the evening of 8 May to prevent her capture.
It began with the old DuPont munitions plant that left behind a trail of lead and mercury, contaminated soil and water and a plume of toxic vapor still capable of leaking into at least 450 houses.
