Listen live to 5-alarm Pennsylvania hazmat fire
Listen live to fireground radio traffic from Allegheny County
Lexi Belculfine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Allegheny County is ordering all homes on Washington Street in Leetsdale to be evacuated because of a raging five-alarm industrial fire nearby at a chemical plant.
Reports on the police radio indicate there are about 72 homes on the street.
The blaze at Weatherford Engineered Chemical Co., 180 Leetsdale Industrial Drive, was reported at 10:10 a.m.
Huge fire hazmat situation Weatherford Engineered Chemical Company door residents stay inside #wpxi pic.twitter.com/odesnm12OQ
— Amy Marcinkiewicz (@WPXIAmy) November 17, 2015
Fire scene in Leetsdale still very active. Just heard a dull explosion from direction of fire. pic.twitter.com/GdO4jrGZx1 — Lexi Belculfine (@LexiBelc) November 17, 2015
NEXT AT NOON:Team Coverage of Industrial Fire/Evacuations in Leetsdale. AND the latest on North Side Swat Situation. pic.twitter.com/gGVKpTgBhm
— WPXI (@WPXI) November 17, 2015
#BREAKING: UPDATE: –Leetsdale Chemical Fire –5 alarms –3 workers injured, 1 firefighter. https://t.co/teFRogrf74 pic.twitter.com/wY3p2pWaEc — KDKA (@CBSPittsburgh) November 17, 2015
