Fire and hazardous spill near river causes road closures, Kalkaska County MI


A fire and spill of 55 gallons of a suspected irritant chemical occurred near the river by the old snowmobile crossing on Route 612. Roads at Blue Lake Road and Blue Creek were temporarily closed for safety while the situation is assessed.
Audio|Source: Kalkaska County Police and Fire Dispatch
02:24
Transcript:
00:00
We're around (number withheld).
00:01
Four engine for 14.
00:07
Go ahead.
00:11
When you get to (number withheld) in the old snowmobile crossing,
00:15
go ahead and stay right there by the river for the time being until we see exactly what this is.
00:28
In order.
00:36
The engine round, thank you very soon. Thank you very soon.
00:52
Poor Chief.
00:54
Four Chief, I have six hours a man.
00:57
It's six months on the air. We'll have them shut down the road temporarily at Blue Lake Road.
01:02
And then if you can come up to Blue Creek, we'll shut down the road with Blue Creek.
01:08
It's Creek. It's Creek.
01:16
Hey on that.
01:22
Calcester Central, this is four tankers, and route with two.
01:28
And get around (number withheld).
01:36
All right, checker. All right, checker.
01:41
If so you're earlier, I didn't get in response from six yet.
01:45
That's okay. I have our tanker, uh, shut the road down, a bee raker.
01:53
We will need the family out here. There is 55 gallons of what appears to be DSI-10. We'll have to do some research on what that is. Right now it just shows an eye irritant.
02:15
Um,
02:17
we'll have to see if we have to get any hazard mitigation done with this.
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Kalkaska County, MI
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