San Antonio firefighters are crediting workers at a warehouse near downtown for preventing an ammonia leak from spreading throughout the neighborhood.
Battalion chief Jarrett Vocke said the took quick action that kept the leak contained only to their building, located in the 1500 block of S. San Marcos.
”That was mitigated by keeping the doors closed, which was a good call on the employees’ part and we were able to slowly ventilate the structures,” Vocke said.
The process of ventilating the building, owned by Kiolbassa Smoked Meats, took most of the night.
Firefighters got the initial call about the leak shortly after 11:30 p.m. Monday but didn’t give the all-clear until around 5 a.m. Tuesday.
”Initially, when we first got on scene, not all employees were accounted for because they had left through different exits,” Vocke said.
Eventually, everyone did turn up.