On Thursday afternoon, September 19, 2024, units from the Alpharetta Fire Department, including Hazmat 84, Quint 83, Squad 83, and Battalion 8, responded to a hazmat incident at a business on Westside Parkway near Hembree Road. The company, which handles various industrial chemicals, discovered a damaged cylinder containing a toluene diisocyanate-based chemical that had begun leaking during transport.