HAZMAT SPILL SNARLS EVENING RUSH HOUR.Byline: Daily News NEWBURY PARK - Traffic jammed on both sides of the Ventura Freeway in Ventura County on Thursday afternoon just before rush hour because of a hazmat situation at the truck scales at the Conejo Grade, the CHP said. The snarl SNARL - Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory (California) SNARL - Suggested No Adverse Response Level tied traffic into the evening, and several injury collisions were reported as the jam backed up traffic in both directions, the California Highway Patrol said. A big rig apparently leaking liquid ammonia pulled into the Conejo truck scales at 1:15 p.m., the CHP said. The CHP had prepared to shut down lanes on both sides of the freeway to handle the hazmat situation, but had not yet done so as of early evening, a dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. Crews were moving the liquid to another vehicle. ``They're off loading it from one big rig to another,'' the dispatcher said. ``It's a hazardous material, and it's being treated as a hazardous material.'' |
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