Word: picric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth authorities mobilized the town's entire 250-man fire department as soon as the blaze began. Because dangerous nitric and picric acids, pesticides and plasticizers were stored at the burning dump, officials also closed public and private schools in both Elizabeth and Staten Island, and urged residents to stay at home and keep windows closed...