Ogden Hazmat responds to oily spill on 21st Street and I-15

OGDEN, Utah — A tanker truck hauling a mixture of fuel and drain oil spilled a lot of its load onto 21st Street as it exited northbound I-15 in Ogden on Monday.

David Reed with the Weber Fire District described the road as being pretty dangerous after the spill.

“It was a lot of slosh going through,” he said, “and it came off the truck and onto the ground. It turned the road like black ice.”

The spill resulted in a level 2, or moderate, hazmat response. Reed said one of the priorities of his team was keeping the mixture off of I-15.

“The UDOT crew is traveling that road trying to make sure there’s no dangerous areas,” he told KSL.

Transportation officials poured sand on the spill as an initial fix, but Reed said a commercial cleanup business would have to finish the job.

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