HAZMAT responding to incident in UK

HAZMAT responding to incident in UK

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Evacuations after Hartlepool car blast death

Two cordons have been set up in Hartlepool and bomb disposal crews have been called in after a man's body was found in a car that had exploded. The man, who has not been identified, was found in the early hours in the Old Cemetery Road area of the town.

Two police officers and three ambulance crew underwent chemical decontamination at the scene. A 150m cordon is in place around the vehicle and about 100 flats

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UNCONFIRMED from Twitter
two more bombs found!
Nuclear power station now evacuated apparently

Its not often police are decontaminated after being sent to the scene. And it's not a conventional method of using chemicals to wipe the intended target out knowing that the explosives would do the job more efficiently.

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I hope this turns out to be nothing..

thanks for posts S&F .. and sorry I have nothing more to offer right now..

ETA: Will have a mooch around and see if I can dig anything up..

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk...

"Friends have been posting on Facebook and Twitter saying that the guy who died in the car explosion lived in that flat and it may have chemicals inside it.

"There's about half-a-dozen police down by the marina now."

More reports coming from social networking sites say that ambulance crews and police officers have been decontaminated following the car explosion in the early hours of this morning.

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as a precaution

Nothing wrong here, just following procedure, they don't know what the situation is.

Of course this could have been a 'failed suicide bomber heading for a nuclear plant', or some other fairy tale.

Nothing on the MSM in the U.S. about it yet. I really hope there is nothing to this. If so, all our friends in the U.K. stay safe.

thats what they will tell you everytime!

seems very suspicious hopefully they will have it covered.

Where does that road lead to that he was found in?

Decontamination at the scene?

Strange, I'm gonna stay tuned.

ALS

Found this PDF, seems the only decontaminate if there is a connection to Nuclear, biological or chemical agents.

PDF

reply to post by RUDDD


Thanks for the heads up, s&f.

What is this? I hope it's nothing, just a guy that had enough of life and blew himself up?
Intersting, will watch it.

Thanks,
OnlyLove

reply to post by wardk28


There's nothing on the MSM in the UK either mate, I dunno what to believe on this yet, If it WERE serious as it appears then Sky would be all over this

*UNCONFIRMED*

Unconfirmed reports that the army and counter terrorism teams are at hartlepool nuclear power station.

we're meant to be having a statement soon but news is full of ken clarke at the mo, its been described as a major situation.

Here is a Google list of live web cams in the Hartlepool area. Don't know if any of them are in the vincinity of this explosion, but if anyone wants to check, here is the Google link....

Hartlepool Live Web Cams

Have a link here with video.

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk...

OnlyLove.

reply to post by zookey


There is nothing much on that road. It leaves a housing estate and leads to a couple of cemeteries that I think are no longer used. There's also the remains of a couple of factories that are being demolished. One which I believe used to bend steel and the other used to remove Magnesium from sea water. It's usually pretty deserted up there.

It's also at the opposite end of town to the Nuclear power station.

I heard the power plant was just evacuated. Have a cousin 1 kilometer from hartlepool

Oh wow.......I hope all my British friends stay up on this. I have CNN on now, but nothing. I pray it stays that way.

reply to post by KoiLahood


Hartlepool
Location: Just south of Hartlepool, on the north east coast of England.
Reactor type: AGR
Net electrical output: 1190 MW. Hartlepool is capable of supplying nearly 2.5 million households.
No. of reactors: 2
Built: 1969-1984
Start of generation: 1 August 1983
Output for the year ended 31 December 2010: 8.1 TWh
Estimated decommissioning date: 2019
Address: British Energy, Hartlepool power station, Tees Road, Hartlepool TS25 2BZ. Click here for directions.
Hartlepool reception: +44 (0)1429 853535

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Hmm. According to Google Maps, it's a relatively short drive down there from Navigation Point. By going down the A178, according to Google, it's about a 20 minute drive.

On the other hand, with a car loaded with TATP (pure speculation, not mentioned anywhere), I wouldn't venture on a 20 minute drive, let alone in a Nissan Micra.

/me joins the club of "Hope this is nothing"ers.