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Hazardous material spill at hardware store in Arcata, Arcata CA

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/12/2025 06:19 PM

9th St, Arcata, CA 95521

A spill of about one quart of concentrated sulfuric acid was reported at Hensel's Ace Hardware near 9th Street in Arcata. Emergency responders acknowledged the life safety hazard and are managing the situation.

Audio|Heard on: Humboldt County Law, Fire and EMS - Eureka and North

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01:55

Transcript:

00:00

Arcata.

00:03

Hazardous material spill,

00:05

Hensel's Ace Hardware, near 9th Street.

00:21

For Arcata Station, Arcata All Call,

00:24

hazardous materials spill, Hensel's Ace Hardware, near 9th Street,

00:29

per RP,

00:31

concentrated sulfuric acid, approximately one quart, at 1820.

00:36

278, go ahead.

00:43

378, boy, (number withheld), repeatin, boy, (number withheld), lots of Dolnikova.

00:52

3-78, boy (number withheld).

01:01

378, I have boy (number withheld).

01:06

278, boy (number withheld).

01:11

3278, Roger.

01:21

4-tune with a response checkback with acknowledgement of life safety hazard.

01:24

Hazardous material spill, Hensel's Ace Hardware, near 9th Street, front of you have seen 8 IC[1], utilized County Fire Tone 10 for command, Humboldt County Fire Attack 8 for tactical for Arcata Fire.

01:37

187, responding, copy Life Safety Hazard.

01:47

B201, copy by safety hazard.

01:52

responding with acknowledgement 1823.

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[1]

IC: Incident Command/Incident Commander in charge of the scene

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9th St, Arcata, CA 95521

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