“Straphanger’s school science project smokes on train; scares other riders”
BY ALISON GENDAR AND OREN YANIV
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friday, March 28th 2008, 4:00 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A school science project that went awry and caused smoke to billow from a student’s backpack sent panicked B train riders scurrying for the exits Thursday in Brooklyn.
“This is not a bomb! This is not terror!” yelled Gregory Kats, 29, a computer engineering student at the New York City College of Technology.
Kats, 29, was heading home from school when wires on a device he had built short-circuited in his backpack, he told the Daily News afterward.”
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“Chemical Warehouse Ablaze in New York”
March 29, 2008 - 12:13am
By JIM FITZGERALD
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “PELHAM, N.Y. (AP) - A fire at a chemical warehouse in Mount Vernon released potentially hazardous chemicals into the air Friday, and residents were urged to shut their windows and stay indoors, fire officials said.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A preliminary report indicated that hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, alcohol and acetone may have been among the chemicals in the headquarters of KEM Chemical Corp. when the building caught fire, the Fire Department said.”