MORAINE — An explosion involving a Rumpke truck at a natural gas fill station in Moraine late Friday morning.
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The explosion was reported in the area of State Route 741 and Cardington Road around 11 a.m.
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Moraine Fire Division’s Fire Marshal, Doug Hatcher, told News Center 7 that he and their battalion had been on a call nearly a mile away when they heard a loud boom.
“It was pretty loud,” Hatcher said.
Bobby Nguyen lives in a nearby neighborhood and told News Center 7 that he was confused by the loud sound that interrupted his quiet morning.
“Sounded like some kind of, ‘Wham! Wham!’” Nguyen said.
Hatcher said the truck had been filling up at the station when the explosion happened.
The truck had six propane tanks on it, three of which “took flight” and scattered around the area.
As shown on News Center 7 at 5:00, the explosion sent debris across the street and onto a nearby roof.
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A spokesperson for Rumpke told News Center 7 that their trash trucks refuel at this specific station because it has natural gas.
“This is a CNG vehicle, a compressed natural gas vehicle, so it’s not diesel,” Molly Kennedy, spokesperson for Rumpke Waste & Recycling, said. “It’s a different kind of fuel for the vehicle.”
Kennedy added that the driver was not injured in the explosion and inspected the truck before refueling.
“We do not have record of anything like this happening with our trucks before,” Kennedy said. “We do everything we can to make sure our trucks are safe. Our drivers do daily inspections before they head out on the road to make sure they’re safe and their truck is safe as well.”
In a statement sent Friday afternoon, Rumpke Safety Supervisor Scott Barnhizer called the explosion an “unprecedented event.”
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