Large gasoline spill reported near McBride Ave, Woodland Park NJ
Fire & ArsonA large gasoline spill occurred near McBride Avenue, causing a strong gasoline smell and liquid entering a storm drain. Fire department teams responded to contain the spill, place dams around the storm drain, and coordinate with environmental authorities. The spill extends down McBride Avenue and is believed to originate from a leaking vehicle.
Audio|Source: Paterson Fire - West
06:31
Transcript:
00:00
The Wollapark Police in the Westpies and Fire Department, you're responding to near McBride Ave exclusive cuts for the order of gas.
00:19
Call our 11 responding.
00:26
Call our 12 responding.
00:30
Receive.
00:37
Receive.
00:48
Car eleven is on location.
00:50
I have a two-story wood frame, residential over commercial.
00:54
I'll be establishing command.
00:56
Report to follow.
01:12
All right, command to all companies, initial report is a strong smell of gasoline.
01:18
It appears that there were some gasoline dumped in the roadway. We'll be investigating further.
01:39
You know where in the street?
01:44
Yep, right where I'm standing.
01:54
Mike,
01:55
just see if there's a trail further down McBride Avenue.
01:59
It may have been from a vehicle that was leaking.
02:09
Yeah,
02:11
actually it looks like it goes all the way down McBride Ave.
02:14
All right, received.
02:20
On my end, there isn't appear to be any storm drains that are affected by it.
02:36
11 to 12, swing back my way by my vehicle.
02:39
We actually have it pulling up next to the storm drain in front of near McBride Avenue.
02:46
It's a large amount.
03:02
Andrew Trees respond to 3-mettle.
03:10
Last unit.
03:14
And just a three-mell.
03:23
Received. At this time, we have a large spill of an unknown substance in the roadway.
03:59
Command[1] call and dispatch.
04:19
Received Rescue.
04:24
Rescue, when you get on location, you're going to pull up to my vehicle. We're going to start putting a dam around this storm drain that the product's entering.
04:35
Rescue,
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receive.
04:42
Call 11 a dispatch.
04:52
All right, we're going to need to start a DEP number for this incident due to the large area of the spill.
04:59
Just notify county, let them know we have a large product on the roadway that is entering one of the storm drains.
05:07
We're going to begin to dam-dike and divert it away.
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Recy.
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12-11.
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Go ahead, 12.
05:25
All right, so this starts pretty much at the old King's Fiskebop,
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and it goes all the way down towards you, pretty much alongside all the cars,
05:35
and then making this way towards the curb line.
05:39
Okay, received.
05:41
I'm going to see if we can start getting some of these vehicles off this side of the roadway.
05:45
And we may need to get a sand truck out here from the DPW.
05:51
Three-out.
05:55
Okay,
05:56
where is the car 11?
06:08
Go ahead.
06:12
Can you just give me that address again where it's pulling up so I can notify county and D.C.?
06:21
Here we'll use the address of near McBride Avenue.
06:30
Great you see.
Police codes explained
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Command: Incident command in charge of the scene
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Location mentioned:
Near McBride Ave, Woodland Park, NJ 07424
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