Residents displaced by fuel spillage
More than 40 inner-city residents ( (were moved from their homes by the police and Fire Service late last I evening after 2500 litres of petrol was spilled. { ; ' { Emergency services ;began moving residents l of the inner-city block between Victoria Street, Dorset (Street, Dublin Street, anblßealey Avenue soon after ill p.m. The spillage occurred when al tanker driver unwittingly overfilled an underground petrol tank at the (Carlton Service Station in Victoria Street;
The ( fuejl flowed across the road arid into drains. Fire Service units, the Ministry df Transport arid the police! sealed the area while! the (Fire Service pumped foam on to the spillage as a precaution, j {The; 50 evacuees were taken by a Christchurch Transport Board bus to the Salvation Army Citadel. ! I i The police said the residents , would be returned to their homes as soon as me drainage contractor, Dakin Company, Ltd, had Gleaned the spilled fuel fn<» 1
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Press, 23 March 1988, Page 8
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