I read this in a tweet regarding this incident:
“I was a firefighter for many years and a hazmat technician. Never ever was the solution to a leaking container of a highly toxic substance “light it up” ever.”
“There would be foam options readily available and the compound is highly volatile. Odds are it would evaporate before ever saturating the ground, and with the proper foam any posing a threat would be absorbed and neutralize.”
“There would be foam options readily available”
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As is so often the case viable options to problems are usually overridden by political considerations. Just saying.