DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A major part of a DeKalb County road was shut down for nearly six hours on Thursday because of a Hazmat investigation.
A truck overturned and spilled hundreds of gallons of a chemical on the road.
Peter Izegbule, who runs a tire shop at a nearby gas station on Moreland Avenue near I-285, told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes that after 9 a.m. on Thursday, he saw a box truck overturn and spill 300 gallons of hydrogen peroxide on the road.
“I saw it as soon as I was coming in,” Izegbule said. “The back fell off. He had two coaches on the trailer.”
He said the truck was carrying two containers of what fire officials are calling a hazardous material – and he saw them falling off the truck.
“He wasn’t speeding because if he was speeding, as soon as he turned, it would’ve fell,” Izegbule said. “Thank God there was nobody behind it.”
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When fire investigators realized the spill was hundreds of gallons of hydrogen peroxide, they evacuated the immediate area, including the gas station Izegbule works out of.
They ended up extending the evacuation to a mile in each direction.
“They didn’t let none of us stay here. All of us were sent out of this place,” Izegbule said. “It affected business. It was shut down for five-and-a-half hours.”
You probably have hydrogen peroxide in your home, in a dark brown bottle. That’s typically a low concentration of around 3%.
This was a much larger quantity that had the potential to burn your eyes and irritate your throat.
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