Posted on 04/03/2026 11:02:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Los Angeles Fire Department crews are responding to a hazmat situation involving a shipping container releasing chemicals in Wilmington Friday morning.
The incident was reported in the 900 block of Harry Bridges Boulevard around 9:10 a.m.
“Preliminary report of a 40-foot shipping container on a trailer off-gassing,” the department said in a news alert. “Hazmat units are confirming the type of product per placards and air monitoring.”
Crews established a perimeter at the shipping facility where the container is located.
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Whatever it is, that’s a corrosive placard on the side of the trailer.
Sure looks like it... Yellow greenish foaming a little bit. It think it’s muriatic acid.
muriatic acid is nasty stuff.
They’ll leave a clean spot on the freeway.
Wilmington, California -— by Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach
densely populated region ... 24,000,000 people within maybe 30 or 40 miles or so
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