MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Saturday, January 19, 1991
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Three employees of a drug store were evacuated and a block-long section of Essex Street’s eastbound lanes were shut to traffic for about two hours Friday as the city police and fire departments investigated the cause of an oil spill and fumes at the back of the pharmacy.
Lt. Ken B. Morosco of the Fire Department said officials took the steps because of fumes from the oil-flooded basement and the parking lot behind First Fidelity Bank, Total Woman Beauty Salon, and Rite Aid Pharmacy at 443 to 455 Essex St.
A truck driver for Dowling Fuel Co. of Ridgefield Park mistakenly pumped 500 gallons of heating fuel into the basement of the Rite Aid Pharmacy on Thursday, thinking he was pumping the oil into a tank at Total Woman Beauty Salon, Morosco said.
Morosco said a sump pump in the basement of the drug store pumped some oil into the parking lot. Much of it was recovered, and the oil company was cleaning up the basement Friday, he said.
Keywords: HACKENSACK; OIL; ACCIDENT; ROAD; CLOSING
Caption: PHOTO – BOB BRUSH / THE RECORD – Workers from Dowling Fuel Co. cleaning up fuel oil behind stores on Essex Street on Saturday.
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