Once again I marvel at emergency workers and the hard jobs they do.
A car hit a gas tanker and they both went up in flames. Rescue workers had a hard battle with it from the beginning. This is a picture I got from Mario, who worked at the gas station across the street.
"About 8,000 gallons of gasoline involved in fire. Elizabeth police tried to make an initial rescue, but it was too hot and they were driven back." said Elizabeth Deputy Fire Chief Lathey Wirkus.
The driver of the car was killed in the crash. But getting the fire out was not their only problem. There was spilling fuel.
"Gasoline did get into some of the sewer systems," said Wirkus, "We've done monitoring of all the homes in the area to ensure explosion levels are not there. We continue to apply foam that keeps the vapors down.
There was a literal sea of that white foam that was floating down 1 & 9, but he said that was necessary to keep the fumes down and from being able to ignite. They spent much of the morning siphoning fuel from the wrecked tanker into a new vehicle and then clean the roadway.
siphoning the fuel
The sea of foam
a close up... looks like clouds doesn't
See how far the truck is from the traffic light behind it... it's a good distance...
but the heat was so intense it burned and melted the traffic light
A video of the foam operations by the tanker.
and a video about 1/4 mile down the road of foam blowing/floating by.
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