A Moses Lake firefighter responds on Thursday to a leaking gasoline tank in the parking lot of Safeway on South Pioneer Way. While fuel spills are the most common type of incident the MLFD responds to involving hazardous materials, the city has received a nearly $250,000 grant to create a hazardous material team with fire departments in Chelan and Douglas counties to handle bigger incidents.
June 23, 2022
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MLFD gets grant for hazardous response team
MOSES LAKE — it’s a Thursday afternoon in the Safeway parking lot, and a trio of Moses Lake Fire Department firefighters stands around an old white Cadillac. There’s the smell of gasoline in the air, and the firefighters have scattered coarse diatomaceous earth — basically cat litter — to contain a spill caused by a drip from the car’s gas tank. “We’re not the hazardous materials team,” one MLFD firefighter says. “We’re still working on that.” ...