A special hazmat team from O'Hare Airport was brought in to assist in this emergency.

Crews battled a fire at a chemical plant in the west suburbs Wednesday evening, officials said. Air quality testing showed no impact from the fire, but residents were briefly told to shelter in place ...

Multiple people were injured after a chemical vat imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in Longview.

All evacuation orders from a chemical emergency at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, were lifted Tuesday ...

CONYERS, Ga. (AP) — Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated while others were told to shelter in place Sunday to avoid contaminants from a chemical plant fire that sent a massive plume of dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fire broke out at a LyondellBasell chemical plant in Pasadena, Texas, late on March 12, with multiple agencies working to ...

No evacuations were reported, and no neighborhoods were asked to shelter in place.

A fire at the ARMOR-IIMAK plant in Amherst caused $100,000 in damage after a fire was found in a chemical solvent room.

An estimated 40,000 people across Orange County, California, were under evacuation orders Friday as officials warned a failing industrial tank holding thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals was set ...