TAMPA \u2014 A chemical explosion damaged a home on the 4000 block of South Covina Circle in Tampa on Oct. 13, prompting evacuations and responses from multiple agencies, Tampa Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n
Someone inside the single-story house mixed multiple caustic chemicals, causing a reaction that led to a small explosion and damaged the roof, fire officials said.<\/p>\n
Firefighters initially responded to a structure fire call but determined the incident was a hazardous materials situation with fumes coming from the home. The department’s hazmat team worked to secure the scene while the Tampa Police Department’s bomb squad assisted.<\/p>\n
Nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution until 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
Two people requested medical evaluations but declined transport to a hospital, Tampa Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n
The FBI, the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Bureau of Fire, Arson and Explosives Investigations also responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 A chemical explosion damaged a home on the 4000 block of South Covina Circle in Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8991,8995,8992,8998,7653,8997,855,5990,8994,276,8996,8993,277,504,135,6417,137,136,3793],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-chemical-explosion","tag-civil-defense","tag-dangerous-goods","tag-disasters","tag-emergency-services","tag-explosions","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-hazards","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-man-made-disasters","tag-occupational-safety-and-health","tag-public-safety","tag-safety","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-fire-rescue","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}