Seattle street closed for ammonia leak inside Darigold building
Jul 23, 2012, 9:20 AM | Updated: 5:28 pm
An ammonia leak has closed Rainier Avenue near Andover
Street in South Seattle.
Fire crews told employees to leave the Darigold plant just
after 7:30 a.m. Monday and all employees were accounted
for. About a dozen businesses, including the nearby Fred
Meyer,
were evacuated near the plant after a pipe
burst inside.
“There’s a four inch pipe that broke or cracked. It goes
to
refrigeration units. That pipe created a cloud of ammonia
inside the plant,” explained Kyle Moore with the Seattle
Fire Department.
While Moore believed it would take only a few hours for the gas to naturally
dissipate into the air, the Fire Department now believes that the road will reopen around 9 p.m.
No one was injured in the leak.
