Leaking acid bottle in a FedEx truck shuts Beacon Street near Kenmore Square at start of rush hour
By adamg on Tue, 02/02/2016 - 5:20pm
The Boston Fire Department reports a bottle of hydrochloric acid started leaking in the back of a FedEx truck parked outside BU's Myles Standish Hall on Beacon Street, at Bay State Road, around 4:45 p.m.
The intersection was shut as the hazmat unit arrived to deal with the situation; BU Police told people to avoid the area.
Around 5:35, the bottle was packed in a larger container for disposal by a company that specializes in such things; the "hot zone" around it sprayed with neutralizing foam.
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After hearing cop cars fly down Mass Ave. towards Beacon St. about 10 minutes ago and hearing helicopters hovering about 5 minutes ago, I wanted to see what was going on.
I checked boston.com, bostonglobe.com, all 4 local news channels & websites and even Boston Police twitter accounts. NONE had any info on this.
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Credit really goes to all the folks on Twitter who "@'ed" me with reports; I'd just gotten back from picking daughter up from school and had no clue anything was going on (same with the Dedham train fatality). Also, BFD does a great job tweeting from the scene.
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