TRUCK CRASHES INTO PROPANE TANK IN JARRETTSVILLE, MD MONDAY NIGHT, PROPANE GAS LEAKED BUT NO INJURIES
January 27, 2015
Jarrettsville, MD
A truck slid and
crashed into a propane tank on a residential property in the 4200 block of
Federal Hill Road in Jarrettsville Monday evening, sending the tank rolling
into the nearby woods and causing a gas leak, according to Harford County fire
officials.
No one was injured
in the accident, and members of the Jarrettsville Volunteer Fire Company and
the Harford County HAZMAT Response Team got the leak under control, Jennifer
Chenworth-Price, a spokeswoman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS
Association, said.
The fire company and
HAZMAT team were alerted at 6:04 p.m., and they left the scene at 7:31 p.m.,
Chenworth-Price said.
She said the propane
was released in a gas form after the homeowner, driving a truck on the
property, slid into the 500-gallon tank and "sheared it off at the
valve."
"It was an
active propane leak," she said via text message.
Chenworth-Price said
emergency workers controlled the leak by plugging the valve.