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applegrove

(118,696 posts) Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:27 PM Mar 2015

4 alarm fire at Vancouver port. Containers filled with chemicals on fire. People told to shelter

indoors. Fireboats involved. CBC TV

and

http://www.portmetrovancouver.com/about/news/2015/03/04/statement-on-the-fire-at-centerm-container-terminal

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4 alarm fire at Vancouver port. Containers filled with chemicals on fire. People told to shelter (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2015 OP

Health authority confirms substance burning is trichoisocyanuric acid uppityperson Mar 2015 #1

I think you mean trichloroisocyanuric acid ... eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #3

I copy/pasted what I saw in one article, sorry. Thanks for the right thing, sounds nasty uppityperson Mar 2015 #4

No problem, an obvious typo somewhere. eppur_se_muova Mar 2015 #5

. u4ic Mar 2015 #2

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

1. Health authority confirms substance burning is trichoisocyanuric acid

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 09:30 PM

Mar 2015

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/port-metro-vancouver-chemical-fire-involves-multiple-containers-1.2982024
Chemical fire plume billows over Port Metro Vancouver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trichloroisocyanuric-acid-burning-at-port-metro-vancouver-1.2982111
Health authority confirms substance burning is trichoisocyanuric acid

eppur_se_muova

(36,269 posts)

3. I think you mean trichloroisocyanuric acid ...

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 11:36 AM

Mar 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroisocyanuric_acid

This is a powerful chlorinating agent and oxidant, so it's helping feed the fire. (It's not an acid, FWIW -- that's just an artifact of the nomenclature system.) Fumes and smoke are likely to contain chlorine, HCl, and chlorine oxides. Nasty stuff.

Google headlines give the correct name.