Minor fuel spill at intersection near car wash, Plymouth CT
Fire & ArsonA vehicle caused a minor spill of oil and fuel at the intersection near Route 6 and Route 262 by the car wash. The spill spread over about 50 to 100 feet and needed sand to control it. The fire department responded to manage the hazard and informed the state DOT. One nearby storm drain was checked and was not affected.
Audio|Source: Plymouth EMS and Plymouth/Terryville Fire
03:53
Transcript:
00:00
Car tube. This is a very minor fuel spill.
00:04
I can handle it myself.
00:05
You can relieve the OS stations.
00:06
Roger Carg 2, very minor spell.
00:08
You can handle releasing other stations.
00:10
720. Card 2, station 1.
00:16
Car 2, Station 1.
00:18
Go ahead.
00:19
Yeah, someone could go down here with more sand.
00:21
This is a pretty substantial oil leak that I didn't see.
00:24
Support responding.
00:25
Support's in route 731.
00:26
Yeah, good.
00:27
I'm pretty sure they took standoff to put all the bottles on that on the truck.
00:31
Yeah, I know. I'm stopping by the firehouse.
00:32
Roger, just making sure.
00:33
Station One, if you can save one more guy to go with me so we can go on there.
00:37
Turnable cartoon, LCD, LCD.
00:39
Caratuga.
00:40
Can you please notify state DOT and let them know that there's an oil spill here and as the truck was the car was taken away, a lot more oil spilled in the intersection of Route 6, 262 in front of the car wash.
00:52
They're going to need a sand truck down here.
00:54
All right, well another place,
00:55
state. Thank you.
00:56
Station 1 of the command, do you want us to bring support up or can we go up to the burn?
01:00
Just bring me up a couple of buckets and you guys can take off.
01:02
Okay.
01:03
LC-Therryville card two.
01:05
Two answering.
01:06
Approximately how much product is on the ground and how far did it spread?
01:09
We had some gasoline but mostly motor oil, well motor oil and gasoline, it spread over probably...
01:16
50 to 100 feet and spreading fast because of the traffic in the rain.
01:20
And it got a lot of heavy buildup of oil in the roadway.
01:23
Free seat card.
01:24
Does Steve need to be notified for anything or no?
01:26
Negative, I think these should be fine.
01:28
You can notify me if you want, but there's no need for them to respond.
01:30
Receive any waterways affected?
01:31
One storm drain, but it seems to be okay for now.
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Location mentioned:
US-6 & CT-262, Plymouth, CT 06782
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