Residents return after spillage

Press, 24 March 1988, Page 4

Residents return after spillage

About 40 residents who I were moved from their homes because of a large I petrol spillage at a Vic- • toria Street service station on Tuesday evening were able to return safely i hours later. The 2500 litres of petrol were spilled when a . tanker driver accidentally . overfilled an underground I petrol tank at the Carlton Service Station. The manager of the station, Mr Grant Smith, : said the driver had been I talking to a customer inside the building before I the incident happened about 11 p.m. I “He went out and then jCame back 'in and said I ‘we have got a problem,’ ” i said Mr Smith. “It was i coming out like a geyser. There was a river flowing out the side of the building and around Dorset Street.” ; ; . | The evacuees from the block between Victoria Street, Dorset Street, Dublin! Street and Bealey Avenue, were taken to the Salvation Army Citadel: A drainage contractor had the spillage cleaned up by about 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday, and residents were returned home soon after. Mr Smith said that many of those evacuated were students and single people, who seemed to be "in pretty good spirits.”;