photo by Lt. CJ Davis, Hamilton County Hazmat
photo by Lt. CJ Davis, Hamilton County Hazmat
photo by Lt. CJ Davis, Hamilton County Hazmat
photo by Lt. CJ Davis, Hamilton County Hazmat
A motorist called 911 on Sunday morning reporting a gasoline/diesel spill at 6300 Satjanon Drive in Ooltewah.
At 10:15 a.m., the Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department responded and arrived on the scene reporting a piece of construction equipment leaking fuel and traveling into a nearby creek. Tri-Community VFD requested a mutual aid response for the Hamilton County Hazmat team.
Fire and hazmat officials reported 15-20 gallons of diesel leaked from a bulldozer on a construction site. Fire and hazmat officials used absorbent boom to contain the spill coming from a bulldozer and made an “earth dam” to keep additional diesel from spilling into a nearby creek.
An environmental company will be cleaning up the remaining diesel on the ground and in the creek.