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A leak at a hazardous-materials waste facility sent large plumes of gas into the air on Oct. 5, 2006, prompting the evacuation of about 17,000 Apex residents. (Video, Images and More)
A court order filed Friday in the case against Environmental Quality Industrial Services, Inc., names an additional 146 members to the class action lawsuit, making them eligible for up to $750 for expenses incurred when they were forced to leave their homes on Oct. 5, 2006.
Replacement settlement checks have been delivered to hundreds of Apex residents who had to leave their homes and businesses in October 2006 after an explosion and fire at a local hazardous waste facility, an attorney for the residents said Thursday.
A court order filed Friday in the case against Environmental Quality Industrial Services, Inc., names an additional 146 members to the class action lawsuit, making them eligible for up to $750 for expenses incurred when they were forced to leave their homes on Oct. 5, 2006.
Settlement checks for hundreds of Apex residents who had to leave their homes and businesses in October 2006 after an explosion and fire at a local hazardous waste facility are missing, an attorney for the residents said Tuesday.
Settlement checks will soon start going out to Apex residents who had to leave their homes and businesses in October 2006 after an explosion and fire at a local hazardous waste facility.
When the Environmental Quality Industrial Services facility erupted into a fireball on Oct. 5, 2006, town officials ordered about 17,000 people to evacuate because they feared that toxic chemicals were in the plume of smoke that spread over Apex.
A federal judge on Thursday approved a preliminary settlement agreement to compensate Apex residents who had to leave their homes and businesses in October 2006 after an explosion and fire at a hazardous waste facility.
A $7.5 million settlement has been proposed for Apex residents who evacuated homes and businesses when a chemical waste depot exploded two years ago.
Following a 2006 explosion at a hazardous waste transfer facility in Apex, a federal safety board has urged improved fire suppression systems and better record keeping at such sites.
The hazardous waste company whose Apex site exploded in a fireball a year ago, forcing the evacuation of about half the town, agreed Monday not to rebuild in order to settle a dispute with state regulators.
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of a chemical fire that forced the evacuation of 17,000 Apex residents. But a year later, the state has yet to revoke Environmental Quality's operating permit, and the company is fighting to reopen in Apex.
EQ Industrial Services has reimbursed Apex for costs associated with a 2006 explosion and evacuation, but the company wants the state to restore its permit. Apex wants no part of a reopened EQ.
The town of Apex received a check Monday for more than $200,000 for expenses related to the response and recovery of an explosion nearly a year ago at a hazardous-waste handling facility last October.
Eleven months after a chemical fire forced nearly half of Apex residents from their homes, some people are still trying to be reimbursed for expenses incurred during the evacuation.
Federal safety experts announced Wednesday that unspent oxygen canisters used on aircraft contributed to the rapid spread of a major chemical fire in Apex last fall.
Almost nine months after a hazardous waste operation in Apex burned to the ground, prompting a massive evacuation, the state has adopted tighter restrictions on such companies.
The federal Chemical Safety Board said Monday that it would announce its findings at a news conference in Raleigh on Wednesday morning.
Company says state based half-million-dollar fine on speculation and second-hand statements.
A state-required investigation has found there to be no contamination at the site of the EQ chemical fire that forced thousands of Apex residents from their homes.
State cites lack of proper initial training for employees and no evacuation plan.
The state Division of Waste Management fined Environmental Quality more than $553,000 in connection with the explosion and fire in Apex. The state also plans to shut down the facility by pulling its hazardous waste permit.
State regulators on Tuesday levied a $553,225 fine against a hazardous waste handler that owns the site of a massive Apex chemical fire and recommended that the company's permit be terminated.
Attorneys for an Apex hazardous waste warehouse that burned to the ground in October have asked a Wake County judge to seal records about the company’s inner workings.
Apex officials say a state Supreme Court decision Friday strengthens Apex’s position against any new EQ facility.
Officials with a hazardous waste company met with state regulators Thursday to discuss reopening a site in Apex where a major chemical fire occurred last fall.
The final debris from a hazardous waste fire three months ago should be removed by next week, officials said.
The company behind a massive hazardous-waste explosion in Apex is trying to make it right for the thousands of people affected by the disaster.
The company whose hazardous-waste operation caught fire two months ago, prompting a massive evacuation, has agreed to pay Apex more than $200,000 for costs incurred during the emergency.
A hazardous-waste handler in Apex is reimbursing residents affected by last month's chemical fire that forced thousands of residents to leave their homes in the middle of the night.
Environmental testing near a hazardous waste operation that caught fire last month found no off-site contamination as a result of the fire, state officials said Friday.
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