Tag: amarillo
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Children aged 7 to 17 killed in Texas home by toxic chemical gas
Four children aged 7 to 17 died after a toxic gas leak from a pest control product at their home in Amarillo, Texas, fire officials said on Tuesday. Six others survived the incident, with Martha Balderas, the mother of the children, in critical condition at a hospital in the nearby Texas Panhandle city of Lubbock,…
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Full of hot air: Helium producers eye Canada as U.S. reserve shrinks
By Rod Nickel MANKOTA, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – An approaching squeeze in U.S. helium supplies has producers of the gas, used in everything from party balloons to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, looking north to Canada's wheat fields. Almost three quarters of U.S. helium demand is filled by an underground reserve in Amarillo, Texas. In April,…