Fuel spill from tractor-trailer closes Route 29 lanes, Charlottesville VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a tractor-trailer leaked fuel from its saddle tanks while traveling northbound on Route 29 near Seminole Trail in Albemarle County. Fire crews and hazmat units responded and closed two lanes to contain the spill, which extended from the U.S. 250 Bypass to a 7-Eleven on Seminole Trail. No injuries were reported.
Audio|Heard on: Albemarle VA Fire-Tac Group Calls
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03:54
Transcript:
00:00
Chief 82 to Seminole Trail.
00:03
Chief 82, 2130.
00:05
ACC Battalion Chief 202.
00:07
Go ahead.
00:08
Okay, just to give you some context.
00:10
Apparently the caller started following this tractor trailer on U.S. 250 Bypass near where it got off onto 29 northbound and then it finally pulled over at the 7-Eleven on Seminole Trail.
00:21
Seminole Trail apparently it was leaking fuel possibly that entire way and it's coming from the saddle tanks.
00:30
On a tractor, not an actual tank that the trailer is pulling.
00:35
ECC from Engine 83?
00:37
Engine 83.
00:39
We're on scene of a tractor trailer on the right side of 29 northbound.
00:45
Does look like there is a long streak of fuel from the driver's side fuel tank.
00:52
We'll be out investigating.
00:54
Engine 83, I'll close command.
00:55
Hi sir, Engine 83 on the scene, tractor trailer right side northbound 29, long streak of fuel from the driver's fuel tank.
01:00
Out investigating.
01:02
Engine 83 Bravo on command 2131?
01:04
PP to ECC, I'm arriving also.
01:07
It's a regular trailer, it's not a tanker trailer.
01:11
Yes sir, I'm sorry that's what I was trying to advise you, that it was coming from the saddle tanks of the tractor, not from a trailer.
01:18
ECC Engine 151, is Hazmat 15 with you?
01:26
Engine 151 to ECC, ask my 15 if they'll be working on service or en route.
01:32
I understood and I don't know if you were direct on my information.
01:35
If you can start looking, the caller started seeing this around the 250 Bypass to go northbound on 29 where the tractor was leaking fuel.
01:47
Careful.
01:51
ECC FM 12, be en route.
01:54
FM 12, I'll show you around at 2133?
01:57
Engine 83, Alpha to Chief 82.
02:00
Chief 82, go ahead.
02:02
Chief, I'm going to take an extra line here because of the high rate of speed.
02:06
Speed bus.
02:08
Chief 82 EPC,
02:10
Let PD know we're going to have two lanes of northbound 29 closed.
02:17
Understood. Do you need further assistance from them?
02:20
We're going to start to pile up traffic so if they've got an officer in the area that'd be helpful.
02:26
Understood.
02:27
Chief 82 ECC.
02:29
Chief 82.
02:32
All right, please put me in command.
02:34
Twenty-nine north incident also advised the incoming units as they come northbound.
02:43
We just got some drainage on the roadway where the fuel had dumped because it leaked out of the tank.
02:50
It doesn't look like there is going to be anything that they'll be able to deal with on the northbound side.
02:56
Obviously, patient 15, yes sir.
02:59
Thankful.
03:01
151 to ECC.
03:03
If you could notify the F average for FYI, fluids start on the overpass of U.S. 250 and U.S. 29.
03:11
We have a large trail all the way up twenty-nine.
03:15
Understood, you started on the overpass right there at 250 and twenty-nine and it's going up twenty-nine?
03:21
Cancel.
03:23
Understood, thank you.
03:25
Two hundred and two is on scene.
03:27
On scene, battalion 202, twenty-one five south.
03:31
Command from 202, do you have any needs?
03:34
Yes, sir. I'm walking your way now.
03:38
151, if you want to go past the cars,
03:41
he's always staged in front of, speeding, has a tractor trailer.
03:46
Might give you the best access for it.
03:50
There's two up here, I think.
03:52
Copy that, we'll go up front.
03:53
Hazmat 15, do you copy?
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Location mentioned:
US-29 & Seminole Trail, Charlottesville, VA 22901
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