New bedford, massachusetts

Original warning text

Aerovox Company; New Bedford, Massachusetts.
New Bedford, Massachusetts.
1. NOAA/OAD was notified of the incident at 2030 on June 4, 1987, by the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Office, Providence, Rhode Island, and requested to provide technical recommendations for extinguishing the fire. NOAA confirmed that the material was, in fact, zinc dust, a residue of Aerovox's zinc plating operation. NOAA concurred with the Chemical Transportation Emergency Center's (CHEMTREC) recommendation that a dry chemical extinguishing agent be used. The New Bedford Fire Department had approximately 200 pounds of a dry chemical fire extinguisher, Metal X, on hand. NOAA/OAD's backup recommendation ( if the dry chemical fire extinguisher did not work) was to flood the hopper bin with very large quantities of water. The New Bedford Fire Department used the Metal X fire extinguisher and large quantities of Fuller's Earth. NOAA now advised that large quantities of water would be an [...]
2. COMMODITY: ZINC DUST. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 1000 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 41.656N 070.924W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6476: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6476