The clean-up of a toxic acid spill from a railcar from the weekend continued Monday on the Southside. Crews were seen Monday transferring the hydrochloric acid from the leaking car to another tanker.
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The spill happened early Sunday morning at the Florida East Coast Railyard and the evection area was along Philips Highway between University Boulevard and J. Turner Butler Boulevard . The spill was quickly contained and no one was hurt but people in the area were told to evacuate. There were worries the spill could have been much worse.Rail crews called JFRD after they spotted the spill around 3 a.m. on Sunday.
“We put a team in their Level A suits. They went in and patched the leak, stopped the leak, but because it was a couple hundred gallons on the ground that were creating a cloud, out of an abundance of caution we geofence that area and alerted the residents. I needed to evacuate until that cloud dissipated just for safety reasons,” Powers said.
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