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...directed by Breck Eisner from a script by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright. The story fans out from its Anytown-Goes-Crazytown first half-hour into a besieged-heroes scenario, in which David, Judy and Russell are hemmed in both by the zombie-ish locals and the military in hazmat suits, who have come to contain the plague at the cost of Ogden Marsh's very existence. It's an efficient thriller, with scare weapons ranging from the primitive (a pitchfork) to the apocalyptic (an A bomb). The acting is only horror-film-functional, and you might wish that...
...writing scrawled on the front around 10:47 a.m. The hospital notified police, which in turn warned hospitals in the area. Throughout the late morning and early afternoon—as hospitals scoured mailrooms for suspicious letters—other hospitals reported finding similar letters, triggering a flurry of hazmat team deployments to four other hospitals in the Boston area. The letters appear to be from by a patient advocate in Westborough, Massachusetts, said BPD spokesman David Estrada. According to the online log, the suspect is “a zealous advocate for patient’s rights and makes...
...morning on Jan. 8, three Austin policemen on patrol downtown found the dead birds feet up on Congress Avenue, the city's busy main boulevard. With ever-present concerns about bird flu and terrorism, HAZMAT teams, the fire and police departments, the county health department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Texas National Guard's rapid response team and even the FBI were quickly on scene as the city closed off downtown...
...waterproof and shockproof device has already been used by hazmat teams in New York and Washington and in military operations, and Ahura has plans to develop an even smaller, cell-phone-size implement. How does the technology work? Explosive liquids tend to have strong chemical signatures, which the device can read, even through bottles or other containers. The technique employed, called Raman spectroscopy, uses a laser for optical analysis. After shining a light on a substance, liquid or solid, the device analyzes the optical characteristics of the scattered light that reflects back. "You can read the substance...
...Finally, the squads move out. One includes firefighters Mark Bond, Joey Lykins and Barry Mesley, a "hazmat" specialist from the Miami Township emergency rescue service who will operate the "AC hot stick," a crucial device which beeps a certain way if a power line is live. Within a few blocks they encounter the first set of fallen trees that will have to be moved. Bond hauls out a plus-sized Stihl chainsaw while his partners ready the winch and help move the logs...