Tractor-trailer overturn spills animal byproduct on highway, Eden MD
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TrafficA tractor-trailer overturned on northbound Ocean Highway near Flower Hill Church, spilling animal byproduct. Traffic officials are controlling the scene and notified the railroad as the spill is on the train tracks.
Audio|Heard on: Wicomico County Fire and EMS
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02:38
Transcript:
00:00
Central units responding, northbound Ocean Highway.
00:03
This is north of Flower Hill Church near Somerset, the tractor trailer overturned with animal byproduct leaking.
00:12
EMS-Rive with you.
00:14
AMS-Hive Responder with G16-0-1.
00:18
Traffic free.
00:20
Past Flower Hill Church Road, go down to Allen Road and come back prior to the intersection of Flower Hill Street and put everybody in slow lane.
00:36
Three or two is on location.
00:39
Slow lane of 13 north is shut down.
00:43
3.17 will have Ocean Highway plan.
00:47
RETA 302 on location 317 have command advising flow lane shut down 1611
00:58
511 location we have 1512 command to central command go ahead
01:12
Two requests.
01:13
Number one,
01:15
do you have State Highway respond?
01:17
They're going to need to be out here for a while with traffic control.
01:21
The second request,
01:23
there is byproducts on the train tracks.
01:26
If you can advise the railroad,
01:29
we will try to clear some of this off the track itself so that they can get by safe, but we do have animal product on the tracks at this time.
01:39
Copy a request for State Highway for traffic control will contact the railroad about the byproduct on the truck.
01:48
Thank you. Fifty, you just come up behind three or two in the floor length.
01:53
MS6 or I, station 7.
01:55
Traffic 3, command.
01:56
You want me to kick them to the right or left?
01:59
TMS6-6-716 and 13.
02:02
T-13. T-10 and go off the page.
02:05
Roger Degger, 1511, 16, 13.
02:08
Traffic control, they're down to Allen and Loretta, from back north,
02:14
and you put everybody into the fast point.
02:18
Copy. I just turned around the emergency, where it turns by,
02:22
and I don't get everyone to do the left.
02:25
Paramed 88-7-2.
02:27
8-7, responding to 26 and 14.
02:30
Central, if you can make the communication with the railroad priority, I do see them coming from the south to the north.
02:37
Copy. I'm on the same with the mail.
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Ocean Hwy, Maryland
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