Railcar Hazardous Material Leak Causes Evacuation, Williamston MI


A railcar leaked hazardous materials near Wallace St, creating a green and yellow cloud. Emergency teams evacuated the area and called for specialized resources to contain and clean up the spill.
Audio|Source: Greater Lansing Area Public Safety
06:32
Transcript:
00:00
We have a railcar that has impacted a resident.
00:04
Conductant primary search this time doesn't do any hazards leasing from the tank.
00:09
However, it is placarded with 1935, 1935.
00:18
809, East Call is a ship.
00:22
Copy that engine one, uh, engine 61, came by.
00:27
I'll reel engine 41 tribal. All real engine 41, tribal.
00:33
Is this injury?
00:38
Def-town 5.
00:42
Clem.
00:48
Let me have entry.
00:50
We'll take the abandoned vehicle and bunker hell for Tom 7.
00:56
Go ahead.
00:58
Okay, Tom 7, clear.
01:01
Town 7. Thank you.
01:03
We got that body drop.
01:06
Okay, after further orders.
01:09
We're 49 for row.
01:12
Just by this command.
01:16
This is dismissed.
01:22
Can you get in contact with someone to bring some, we need some dry earth over here to cover this bill?
01:30
You repeat your last.
01:36
We need a road commission or a company to bring Earth in to cover this bill.
01:44
Avi, I'll may contact the road commission as well as DOT.
01:52
I'll do that.
01:58
Entry to this command.
02:04
We have resources on route to contain the spill,
02:09
just waiting on route.
02:17
3 out of 17.
02:19
This is civil again.
02:20
Okay.
02:22
Beat that T-Town.
02:24
Okay.
02:27
Nice, we're clear 17.
02:28
I'm going to go to the UN live.
02:31
Victim has been being contaminated, ready for transport, and EMS[1].
02:36
Copy that.
02:40
I don't know.
02:41
I'll say, you know, it's going to be 36, 12, South King.
02:47
He was Warren for Joseph King earlier night.
02:49
I don't know if it's just me, but you were really faint.
02:52
Sorry, and my mic up off, I was training.
02:56
I'll see you in this direction.
02:58
Do you want to row?
03:00
I'll show you guys in route.
03:01
The Ciz is Sonoko with 3612 South King.
03:04
He was trespassed on nights.
03:06
Is there a significant source of water near the spill?
03:12
Trevor.
03:15
Negative no water source.
03:22
Enter team, can you reposition the barrel to contain the leak? Back up on its bottom there.
03:39
Can you go ahead? I'm hearing, Angie.
03:46
Stop at (number withheld), Platte, Edward, Tom, Robert, (number withheld).
03:53
Engine 61, dispatch, priority traffic.
03:58
That engine 61.
04:00
11 about.
04:05
The advisor railcar is leaking and it's a green and yellow cloud coming from the bottom of what appears to be the bottom by the truck.
04:16
We're evacuating the area.
04:20
Dispatch my club.
04:21
Back club.
04:23
Copy that engine 61.
04:25
Command to dispatch.
04:27
Left assist only.
04:29
We'll be clear with the refusal.
04:32
Okay. Michael, okay.
04:35
Engine 61 may contact that the railcar can leave dispatch additional hazmat resources to their location.
04:42
They have a green and yellow cloud leaking from the truck.
04:46
Copy. Do we have an exact address?
04:51
Let me get that quick.
04:55
N61, this is command.
04:58
Go ahead.
05:02
Do you have an approximate address of your location?
05:12
(number withheld) Wallis.
05:13
Copy.
05:18
Command, Angie.
05:24
Dispatch, this is command.
05:26
We have an address showing at (number withheld) Walnut.
05:31
(number withheld) Walnut or (number withheld) Wallace?
05:36
The second one.
05:41
17, we're out on the UTO.
05:42
So quick, incline you to run out.
05:45
Okay.
05:48
Copy, I'm activating the Mavis.
05:50
You'll be getting a strike team out of Powell, a strike team from Flint and a strike team from Washmore County.
06:00
Copy that. Can you inform police that we meet a quarter mile isolation zone for 1935 in all directions?
06:16
That would be, I'm sorry, for NGY1's position for the Greening Gilles.
06:22
Okay.
06:28
Command entry.
06:31
Go ahead, Andrew.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
EMS: Emergency Medical Services
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Location mentioned:
Near Wallace St, Williamston, MI 48895
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