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Emergency management reports diesel spill and CSX ammonia leak; ambulance calls increase in May
Summary
Emergency management briefed the Greenup County Fiscal Court on a significant diesel spill in Flatwoods and an anhydrous ammonia leak at a CSX rail yard that prompted shelter‑in‑place notifications; ambulance director reported 667 calls in May and 3,736 year‑to‑date responses.
Emergency management and public safety updates at the Greenup County Fiscal Court meeting on June 10 detailed several recent incidents and ongoing response activities.
Emergency Management staff reported responding to a diesel fuel spill at Tri‑State Enterprises in Flatwoods that required Kentucky RTN/EPA involvement and cleanup. They also described an anhydrous ammonia leak at the CSX rail yard in the West Russell area; responders issued door‑to‑door shelter‑in‑place notifications for the affected neighborhood while Marathon and CSX mitigated the leak. The office deployed drones for searches (missing persons, runaway juveniles and warrant service) and located several missing people, including a dementia patient in Flatwoods.
Emergency management also held an electric vehicle firefighting class in May with plans for a follow‑up training in September that will include demonstrations of battery overcharge hazards. The court accepted the emergency management report into the record.
Ambulance Director Kevin Callahan reported 667 calls for May, year‑to‑date responses of 3,736 and 17,589 miles driven in May; he noted plans to attend the American Ambulance Association meeting in Lexington and to set meetings for county representation with government relations contacts.
Provenance: Emergency response incidents and the ambulance authority's monthly statistics were presented during the meeting and accepted into the record.
