Officials said there is no threat to the public after chemicals leaked from a truck at a FedEx facility on Old County Circle in Windsor Locks on Wednesday morning and the road has reopened.
Officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said they determined that nitric acid spilled. Their crews stopped the leak and a contractor responded to clean up the spill.
Lt. Paul Cherniack, of the Windsor Locks Police Department, said the police and fire departments got a call around 7:30 a.m. about a possible hazmat situation and learned that a corrosive material was leaking from a tractor-trailer.
He said theye learned that a forklift hit a drum and punctured the tanks.
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Officials initially asked people to avoid the area of Old County Road near Old County Circle and Cherniack said evacuations were underway at nearby businesses. Later on Wednesday morning, officials said the situation was isolated to the property,
Mutual aid was called in and fire and police departments from several towns responded and a drone was flown over the leak to determine the scope of the leak, Cherniack said.
