Chlorine leak at Rigby Yard 04-27-2016

[MEC407]

From the Portland Press Herald:

South Portland firefighters were able to contain a chemical leak from a rail car early Wednesday without evacuations or injuries, according to fire officials.

The chlorine leak at Rigby Yard was reported to the fire department at 1:17 a.m.

“It sounded like some workers there were prepping a train and smelled an odor, so they called the fire department,” said Robb Couture, a spokesman for the department.

Couture said the department’s hazmat team found the smell was caused by chlorine gas leaking from a valve on top of a train car. The car was empty, but there was residual gas, Couture said.
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Couture said federal rail authorities were at Rigby Yard Wednesday morning but would not tell local officials where the train car had come from or where it was headed.

The 25 to 30 South Portland firefighters who responded to the leak cleared the scene by 7:30 a.m.

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[Mikejf]

Hope the car was shipped empty..

[CN9634]

Hope the car was shipped empty..

If it was a load the story would be radically different....