Clean-up crews from several city agencies continue to work on the approximately 1,000 gallons of oil that seeped into the ground beneath a freeway overpass in West LA's Rancho Park neighborhood.
Firefighters responded to the 2800 block of South Sepulveda Boulevard, near the 405 Freeway, around 5:54 p.m. Monday and discovered oil coming out of the ground at a rate of approximately 3 to 5 gallons per minute, according to LAFD'S Nicholas Prange.
They then requested a vacuum truck from the waste management company Clean Harbors and sand from the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services to help mitigate the environmental effects of the flow of the oil, Prange said.There is no anticipated widespread public hazard, Prange said. An LAFD truck arrived to position the sand to provide additional material to protect the drains and the environment, Prange said.
Multiple oil pipes run through the area and various agencies are working together to determine which line was compromised. No injuries were reported. Sepulveda Boulevard is shut down in both directions in the vicinity of the spill for an unknown durationthat I have read and agree
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