On my way to work this morning at about 6:20 AM I was driving South on Lewis Avenue through Beach Park when several emergency vehicles approached from both directions. I pulled over and watched as they began blocking the intersections behind and in front of me. After they passed, I pulled up to the next intersection and they were allowing vehicles to go through going South, away from the area, so I continued on toward work, but I kept watching the cross-streets to try to see what was going on. Obviously something was up. As I passed one intersection I noticed a while cloud of what I thought was fog crossing the road down the road to the West. I thought nothing of it, assuming it was just morning fog as I’ve seen this many times before.
As it turned out, there was an accident on Green Bay Road and 29th Street, to my West, and a truck carrying ammonia was involved, spilling or leaking a great deal of ammonia from its tanks. That was the fog I saw… a cloud of ammonia. I have included a few links below. The one from NBC Chicago has a pretty good drone or helicopter video of the area covered in that “fog”. Click here for that one.
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