Truck hits pole, spills mineral oil on Airport Drive, Chesapeake VA
TrafficA truck struck a telephone pole near Airport Dr in Chesapeake, causing a transformer to fall and spill 75 to 100 gallons of mineral oil into a ditch. The wires remained live, making the scene unsafe until power is cut.
Audio|Source: Chesapeake Fire
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Transcript:
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Hey, we're over here on airport drive, the road that goes to the airport, about halfway down.
00:06
A truck has struck a telephone pole.
00:08
The transformer fell off the pole, landed on the hood of the truck, busted open.
00:13
Dominion Power says it's somewhere between 75 and 100 gallons of mineral that is spilled out into the ditch adjacent to the accident.
00:23
Okay, is it contained right now or is it still still an out leaking out?
00:28
Oh no, the whole content of the transformer is in the ditch.
00:34
And right now the scene, all the wires are still hot, so there's nothing we can do to stop anything.
00:43
But it's been sitting on the ground for now.
00:46
We've probably been on seeing 30 to 40 minutes.
00:48
whatever it's done it's done it's soaked into the ground.
00:51
Okay, I'll contact the on-call Marshall to see what they want to do about it.
00:55
If it's soaked into the ground and it's just mineral oil, I don't think there's a hazard, but let me check and I'll get right back to you.
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Location mentioned:
Airport Dr, Chesapeake, VA 23323
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