Truck spills sulfur causing road hazard at county intersection, Hillsborough County FL
TrafficA truck spilled a large amount of sulfur at the intersection of County Road 39 and County Road 672 in Lithia, Florida. The driver stated the sulfur is non-hazardous, similar to fertilizer. Authorities contacted fire rescue to confirm the hazard status and to help with cleanup. The spill caused a road hazard and police responded to manage the situation and notify appropriate agencies.
Audio|Source: Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
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Transcript:
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We placed me on a signal 16.
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It'll be at County Road 39 and 672.
00:07
Can you have C4 good info for me?
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One hour thirty.
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Can I get a Spanish speaker 51, maybe even a D2 Spanish speaker?
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6471 to C4.
00:25
Okay, and they're 1025 with them and they're police officers and they can do recoveries and all that stuff.
00:32
What do they need us to do with,
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to signal a...
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Are they expecting us to transport them back or sit there and wait for mom and daddy to come pick them up?
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I'm known at this time's fair, I can give them a call back and try and get them elaboration.
00:47
104, any 108 Spanish speaker to be 1051 to one norah 31's call at east?
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One north, correction, one nor thirty's call on Dr.
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King.
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Come in a number.
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10-4.
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Yeah, see what they want us to do.
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I mean,
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there's...
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It seems silly that we need to come up there and sit with them.
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They can recover, remove them and get some adult to come pick them up.
01:18
Okay, good one call.
01:20
Thank you, Michael.
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and they had a spill here.
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They're claiming that it's not hazardous, it's a pearl storm,
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like a fertilizer.
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But they dumps quite a bit of it here.
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They're making the notifications.
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But we have right here the second home,
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672 at 39.
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It's all signal 16 right here.
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Julian at 12, can I get Julian 31?
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We'll come back in from 24.
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1629 hours.
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Do they need help cleaning enough? Do they need anything to call County Mansettel?
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Or... Oscar 4, zone.
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Discussion 1, off-year 42, Signal 22,
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at 6204, Scholar Town Lane, at Windsorov-Tartar School in the area of Providence Road and Glendthorpe and Windhorpe Avenue, 629 hours.
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Thank you.
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Let me see, I'm going to get with them and I'll get right back on you here, but could you have at least one patrol unit to do one here?
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Motor 3V, 1050.
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Motor TV.
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6471 Mac.
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It's going to be 41 in 3rd Avenue southeast.
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It's going to be a Florida Delta Whiskey Zero, one Delta Zulu,
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DW0, 1DW0,1DZ.
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It's going a black and red Camaro.
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They're not really sure what the procedure is, but he's making notifications for his company and trying to get it all figured out.
02:52
So when you advise it's not hazardous, do I need to call fire that's all?
02:57
So the truck driver here is claiming that it's a non-hazardous form of sulfur.
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I'm just having to take his word for it there.
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I don't know, maybe if you could contact potentially, I guess, fire rescue and see if they're going to agree with that.
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Yeah, I can have them being around that.
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They can make that determination.
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I gotcha. I appreciate it.
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Uh,
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for now.
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Alright, I'll meet you.
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I'll start a patrol out to you.
03:29
It looks like I can follow right now if I'm trying to find them.
03:32
All right, yeah.
03:33
We're out in the middle of nowhere, but this intersection gets kind of busy at this time of day, and we have at a signal 16 here.
03:41
If you'll just make note to the Keenan,
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K-E-N-A-N-N-A-N-A-N-Ad vantage group truck.
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Delta 1 zone, 1 delta 10, 2 Deltz, 25 dispassional 18, 5,007, East Lye Avenue.
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Reverest type from Pinellas County for wanted subject.
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1630, 2R. 25, U.S.
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75, U.S. 5731.
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24, 1632.
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1-1-21.
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21.
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I'll see you show me today.
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Am I no longer needed at a signal 3 for the Spanish maker?
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To the area of Juliet 4 zone.
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Just patching 1 Julia 841 is a 10994 for 1-0.2840 at 1-1232 long crash drive, a black bar drive.
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1633 hours.
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Hello, Air, Kilo-2Zone, respecting 2-4-24 to 1094 for Unit 64771.
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We, via Signal 16[1],
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Uplice County Road 39, County Road 672,
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could be reference to road hazards.
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September, you got a patrol, 5212, and then I'll have fire a scheme for 212.
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Tim 4. They did provide me some paperwork claiming that it's, I don't see where, anywhere it says on here that's not hazardous, but there's not like a hazardous plaque on this truck or anything like that.
05:20
It reads solid sulfur.
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Signal 16: Traffic crash
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Location mentioned:
Co Rd 672 & S County Rd 39, Lithia, FL 33547
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