Emergency personnel work on the website of fuel tanker accident in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Feb. 16, 2022. (Seth Wenig / AP)
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. --
A gasoline tanker overturned, crashed right into a vacant constructing and burst into flames early Wednesday on New York's Lengthy Island, shutting down site visitors for hours and spilling gasoline into the sewer system, authorities mentioned.
“Once I got here right here, there was hearth in all places, the streets, the tanker, the 2 buildings, and after I appeared down Dawn Freeway, there was hearth popping out of seven or eight manhole covers,” James Avondet, hearth chief for the village of Rockville Centre, mentioned after the 1 a.m. crash.
The truck's driver was injured within the crash, and three of the 150 firefighters who responded had been additionally handled for accidents, officers mentioned at a information convention later Wednesday. The reason for the crash was below investigation.
The tanker crashed right into a vacant La-Z-Boy showroom at North Heart Avenue and Dawn Freeway, about 30 miles (48 kilometres) east of New York Metropolis.
“There have been about 9,200 gallons (34,825 litres) on the gasoline tanker when it flipped and caught hearth,” Nassau County Chief Fireplace Marshal Michael Uttaro mentioned. “The driving force was in a position to self-extricate and he was transported to to a neighborhood hospital.”
Gasoline bought into the sewer system and into creeks, the place it was being contained with booms, Uttaro mentioned.
“So there is no menace to the surroundings for the time being,” he mentioned. “There is not any menace to any of the residents or any properties.”
The Coast Guard was serving to to map the spill, he mentioned.
Gov. Kathy Hochul mentioned a number of state companies, together with the departments of environmental conservation and transportation and the state police, had been aiding within the response to the explosion and gasoline spill.
The environmental division used a drone to evaluate potential results, Hochul mentioned.
Authorities acquired a name about 1:10 a.m., Avondet mentioned, and “upon arrival I noticed a tanker truck that was on its facet.”
A video posted to Twitter confirmed thick black smoke billowing from the Rockville Centre constructing that the truck crashed into, which was absolutely engulfed in flames, whereas firefighters labored to place out the blaze.
The La-Z-Boy constructing was destroyed within the hearth, and one other constructing was broken.
Firefighters had been in a position to get the blaze below management “in a comparatively brief time with only a few accidents,” Avondet mentioned.
“We're very glad if it was going to occur it occurred at 1:00 within the morning with no one else round,” he mentioned.
The water in Rockville Centre was protected to drink, though it “is perhaps just a little yellow,” Avondet mentioned.
Dawn Freeway and several other different roads close to the crash website remained closed as of three p.m.
Energy was restored within the space by midafternoon after being shut off as a precaution, mentioned Julie Grilli, a spokesperson for the village of Rockville Centre.
Emergency personnel work on the website of fuel tanker accident in Rockville Centre, N.Y., early Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photograph/Alex DiGregorio)
Emergency personnel work on the website of fuel tanker accident in Rockville Centre, N.Y., on Feb. 16, 2022. (Seth Wenig / AP)
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