Ohio EPA scrutinizes environmental impact of Grandview Heights tractor-trailer fire

A hazmat team has been called after a trailer was smoking in west Columbus on Thursday morning. . The trailer contained lithium ion batteries, acetone, and ethanol when it caught fire.

The trailer burned for hours at Ward Trucking on McKinley Avenue. It led to evacuations and road closures. Now there are questions about damage to the environment. Firefighters faced some challenges. The batteries were burning inside the trailer, along with chemicals. The risk was a deadly explosion. That didn't happen, but now there could be dangers in the debris. That's something the Ohio EPA is monitoring."Anytime there's a fire, there's particulate being released into the environment," EPA Director Anne Vogel said. "This was a very short-term, acute release of particulate into the air.

"It helps that we've had a lot of rain here in Central Ohio and so any small levels that were released into the storm sewers were diluted immediately in our large rivers," she said. "We haven't found any levels of concern for anything that entered the waterways."The owner of the trailer is responsible for the cleanup. They've hired experts to help with that."We don't rush the investigations," she said.

Once the investigation is complete, they'll collect what's left of the lithium ion batteries and properly pack them so they can be taken to a recycling facility..

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