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Apex Hazardous Materials Fire
Milwaukee mourns 3 killed in blast
Dec 7, 2006
| AP
Melvin Kuster retired after 41 years working for Falk Corp., the century-old factory that also once employed his father. Now his only child has died...
Plume brings more Apex evacuations
Oct 19, 2006
| AP
Emergency crews evacuated businesses near an industrial waste plant Wednesday after a chemical reaction sent a toxic plume into the air, two weeks...
Apex fire may smolder until dawn Saturday
Oct 17, 2006
| www.newsobserver.com
After hours of waiting outside a gutted, smoking hazardous waste plant, firefighters this morning were mounting a direct assault on a...
Law Firms File Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of Individuals Injured by Fire in Apex, North Carolina, Individual Lawsuits being Evaluated at ApexChemicalFire.com
Oct 16, 2006
| www.prweb.com
A group of prominent personal injury law firms collectively filed a class action lawsuit last week on behalf of thousands of individuals and...
Thousands evacuated from Apex because of hazardous material fire
Oct 6, 2006
| AP
Authorities asked about 16,000 residents of this suburban Raleigh town to evacuate early Friday morning as they waited for daylight before starting...
Apex Chemical Fire Closes Schools And Evacuation Centers Fill Up
Oct 6, 2006
| www.raleighchronicle.com
Wake County emergency officials have released an update on the situation in Apex surrounding a massive hazardous chemical fire that has caused...
Apex fire forces evacuations
Oct 6, 2006
| News & Observer
Fire crews have not begun to fight a fire at a hazardous waste plant that has spread a cloud of dangerous chlorine gas across Apex this morning,...
Hazardous gas, fire lead to evacuations in Apex
Oct 6, 2006
| AP
More than half of the town of Apex, about 17,500 people, fled their homes Thursday night and early Friday after a chemical fire spewed a toxic cloud...
Plant's chemicals are still unidentified
Oct 6, 2006
| www.newsobserver.com
Environmental Quality Co. is allowed to handle scores of toxic compounds, but it was not clear whether late-night explosions at the Apex hazardous...
EQ facility had been warned
Oct 6, 2006
| www.newsobserver.com
The Apex facility where a fire and explosions begat clouds of chlorine gas Thursday night was warned of a potential catastrophe more than six months...
