DEP Had 'FAST' Response to Tanker Rollover

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  The following text was provided by the Mass Department of Environmental Protection. A potentially explosive situation loomed in the hours after a gasoline tanker truck overturned on Route 128 South in Woburn last month. About 7,500 gallons of gasoline spilled from the tanker, running into the highway drainage system and flowing out into the nearby Aberjona River. Unhealthy vapors hung in the air, and migrated into a hotel nearby and a gym building downstream along the river. Two days earlier, in the South End of Boston, an explosion did occur – an underground steam pipe blew up, blasting holes in the sidewalk along Harrison Avenue and spewing dangerous asbestos fibers over everything within a one block area of the city. The Massachusetts…

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