Chemical tanker leak causes mass casualties and evacuation, Shelbyville IN
Fire & ArsonA tanker leaked anhydrous ammonia near the sunflower field and water park in Shelbyville. The leak created a vapor cloud causing multiple injuries and at least one unresponsive victim. Emergency teams started water streams to control the leak, set up decontamination, and evacuated nearby areas. Several ambulances and hospitals were contacted for patient transport and care. Traffic was diverted to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Shelby County Public Safety
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Transcript:
00:00
Okay, this is anhydr simonia.
00:02
Are you going to set up a master stream to try to mitigate the cloud?
00:07
Shelburville 115.
00:09
Go ahead.
00:12
She is here.
00:19
She's not really okay, but would like her father, if you call him back, let him know she is here.
00:24
She seems to be fine, but she would like him to come pick her up. There's many crimes being committed in her home, including her cat being drugged.
00:34
Go ahead.
00:37
Negative. We're getting set up now. I'm going to back the ladder in. We're going to stretch an inch and three quarter and see if we can get to an emergency shutoff. I can't see exactly what's going on with the trailer yet.
00:49
I'll let you know more once we're set up.
00:51
I will need an engine company to lay a supply line,
00:57
have them back in towards us from the...
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park area to a safe location and then it hand jacked the rest of the way out into the sunflower field back to the hydrant and then we'll bring the supply light from our truck and meet them out in the field to hook up.
01:16
Command's clear. Engine wire, are you, Claire?
01:19
Stay with her for just a minute. I was trying to get a hold of her yesterday and was never able to make contact. I need to speak with her if you can.
01:28
All right, we'll just stand by right here.
01:32
Indy-691 is right? Innings 691 has the assignment.
01:36
Hand-jected from the hydrant,
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around the field.
01:40
Command from medic 695.
01:43
Shall we know 110?
01:47
One-10.
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600, 116.
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All medic crews approach from Morris Avenue into the first drive from the park and stage.
02:03
I don't believe you'll receive any notice but here at the Preschool, I'm going to the Crane Girl.
02:09
Command for Medic 5.
02:13
Can you check on your traffic, please don't go ahead for 10.
02:19
I do not believe you receive any notice. However,
02:24
here at the preschool, we're going to do a code red drill.
02:30
We're going to have 16 patients.
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Most are either going to be three hours as green or yellow.
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We're going to need multiple ways to transport these patients.
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Ten four.
02:46
Command's clear. Medic 5, you will have triage.
02:51
135-0, Howard.
02:54
135. Medic 5's clear. Do you want us to have a different option, gentlemen?
03:00
Negative.
03:01
Antigate 3's driving.
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Shelbyville, 130.
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Command from latter two.
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The driver of the tractor is not available.
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He's not injured. He left the scene.
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So I don't have a patient here at the trailer. We just got to try to mitigate this leak.
03:22
One thirty.
03:24
Command's clear.
03:27
Command 600.
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Clear from Blue River.
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We use the route to Salvation Army return properly.
03:38
Go ahead.
03:40
Clear.
03:42
You want the incident command prox?
03:46
No, you can go ahead and start it.
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Click.
03:50
Control command.
03:56
Go ahead, command.
03:59
124 is Clair from the Thompson.
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This is going to be a mass casualty incident.
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I need you to go ahead and start me Fountain Towns Ambulance, also Morristown's Ambulance.
04:13
Contact Decatur County and Rush County to see what kind of support we can get from them as far as ALS trucks will be L.S.
04:19
Also, I need major hospital contacts to see how many patients they can handle.
04:26
124. Clear and all.
04:33
Command from triage.
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Go ahead.
04:41
Do we have a decon station set up anyway?
04:46
Engine 3 is working on getting that set up right now. They're going to handle patient evacuation and set up for decon.
04:54
1043, I got more people over here, stand on the outside. We can't get to move.
04:58
Control 903.
05:01
We're going to have one patient that's going to need decons.
05:04
9.03.
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I'll be enrapped to the incident in UTV 691 Okay
05:17
902 arriving
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I'll be at the command post
05:21
9.O2 We need medic down here Your location
05:28
On the west side of the tanker itself, I need medic now
05:33
Okay
05:35
Command control.
05:38
Good.
05:41
Officers are requesting a medic on the west side of the incident.
05:45
Shelby County One.
05:47
Okay.
05:53
Medic for you available for that?
05:59
We're going to need eastbound 44 traffic stopped coming into Shelbyville. They need to divert back at at least 350 east.
06:14
1043 on the west side of their family's one patient and I need a medical right now.
06:23
They've been all right.
06:26
Come here from the latter, too.
06:28
Good.
06:34
Forty, I think he's on the west side. We can go over by this engine, just go through the grass here.
06:39
Once we have water supplied, we're going to start an inch and three-quarter water stream to try to control the vapor cloud.
06:48
It looks like it's sheared off the valves off the belly of the tank.
06:52
I put a thermal camera on it, and it looks like the tank's partially empty. I feel like it's only about a third of the way full, but I'll let you know once we have water going.
07:03
Command's clear.
07:05
Okay.
07:11
Control.
07:12
Good?
07:13
We have multiple patients down on the west side of the incident.
07:18
Command's clear on multiple versions.
07:20
I couldn't copy your last.
07:24
Command's clear on multiple patients on the west side.
07:28
Claire have information on your responding units when you're ready.
07:32
Good.
07:37
Medic 612, ambulance 651 are en route. Have one coming from Decatur, one coming from Rush. Major hospital can take 10 patients at this time for triage.
07:50
Okay.
07:51
Have those incoming units to report to the command post,
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which is on the north side behind the water park.
07:59
Okay.
08:05
Letter 2 from Region 1. Are you ready for water?
08:09
Control, man.
08:11
Go ahead.
08:13
Go ahead. No, right.
08:15
Okay.
08:17
Shelvel 116, I put them the nose that have Timela8,
08:22
Walmart shutting their H-back off.
08:24
Perfect.
08:26
Command from Ladder 2, we're getting ready to start flowing water. I've got one victim downwind of the trailer in the smoke cloud.
08:34
We're going to try to get a fog stream on it and get in drug up into a safer location.
08:40
He's unresponsive.
08:42
Transclear.
08:43
Commandant, permission 1.
08:45
Goodby, we're hooking the high and ready.
08:48
We have our pump operator at the monitor, which you like to reassign two firefighters.
08:54
Right, they will hit back there.
08:57
34, I got madden coming here away.
09:00
Command, you repeat, driving.
09:03
Clear.
09:07
They will need to assist with the evacuation.
09:11
24, they're all going to be probably yellow tags over there based on what they were grading on with those others.
09:18
Clear.
09:19
Far times two, this was evacuation.
09:22
Command from engine three.
09:27
Decontamination is going to be between the sunflower field and the drive.
09:31
We've got a blithifier set up with the park.
09:38
Command from medic 5.
09:41
Ladder 2 from engine 691, are you ready for water?
09:49
Control command.
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