Drum leaking unknown substance prompts HazMat response
Hazmat firefighters check a container thought to contain hazardous materials in the middle of the street on Avenue Hall in the industrial center on Saturday. Dan Watson/The Signal

Drum leaking unknown substance prompts HazMat response

A HazMat response was called to an overturned metal drum with an unknown substance in Valencia on Saturday afternoon. Firefighters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department specially trained in…

UPDATE: HazMat officials deemed “no hazard” for abandoned drums marked “corrosive”
Firefighters including those with HazMat units responded to reports of corrosive material being dumped on the 28000 block of Industry Drive in Castaic Tuesday morning. Gilbert Bernal/The Signal

UPDATE: HazMat officials deemed “no hazard” for abandoned drums marked “corrosive”

By Jim Holt & Gilbert Bernal Signal Staff Writers HazMat crews were called to the suspected illegal dumping of a corrosive material in Castaic on Tuesday morning. Firefighters with the…

UPDATE: Suspicious powder that emptied library found to be a cleaning product
Firefighters process the scene of a hazardous material response outside of the Stevenson Ranch Library on Thursday, March 22, 2018. Austin Dave/The Signal

UPDATE: Suspicious powder that emptied library found to be a cleaning product

A suspicious white powder, later determined to be a non-toxic cleaning product, was found under one of the computers at the Stevenson Ranch Library and prompted the evacuation of the…

UPDATE: COC parking lot deemed safe after HazMat incident
Fire fighters gloves' are rinsed after investigating a hazardous material leak in the trailer of a UPS truck at College of the Canyons on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal

UPDATE: COC parking lot deemed safe after HazMat incident

Firefighters trained to handle hazardous materials examined a delivery truck that contained a package reported to have spilled a corrosive substance onto a parking lot at College of the Canyons…

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