4 alarm fire at Vancouver port. Containers filled with chemicals on fire. People told to shelter

[applegrove]

indoors. Fireboats involved. CBC TV

and

http://www.portmetrovancouver.com/about/news/2015/03/04/statement-on-the-fire-at-centerm-container-terminal

[uppityperson]

1. Health authority confirms substance burning is trichoisocyanuric acid

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/port-metro-vancouver-chemical-fire-involves-multiple-containers-1.2982024
Chemical fire plume billows over Port Metro Vancouver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/trichloroisocyanuric-acid-burning-at-port-metro-vancouver-1.2982111
Health authority confirms substance burning is trichoisocyanuric acid

[eppur_se_muova]

3. I think you mean trichloroisocyanuric acid ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroisocyanuric_acid

This is a powerful chlorinating agent and oxidant, so it's helping feed the fire. (It's not an acid, FWIW -- that's just an artifact of the nomenclature system.) Fumes and smoke are likely to contain chlorine, HCl, and chlorine oxides. Nasty stuff.

Google headlines give the correct name.

[uppityperson]

4. I copy/pasted what I saw in one article, sorry. Thanks for the right thing, sounds nasty

[eppur_se_muova]

5. No problem, an obvious typo somewhere.

I just think people should know for sure what they're running from.

[u4ic]

2. .

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/port-metro-vancouver-chemical-fire-safe-to-go-outdoors-again-1.2982024