Damaged car leaks oil into Miner’s Creek, requires hazmat cleanup
Eric Johnson/High Country Training Center
At a creek crossing on Miner’s Creek Road, a rock punctured a car’s oil pan on June 22, and oil started leaking into the creek.
Crews from Summit Fire & EMS and Red, White & Blue Fire Protection District responded to clean up. High Country Training Center Capt. Eric Johnson wrote in an email that it is rare for a hazmat response to lead firefighters into the wilderness, but responders cleaned up about 5 quarts of oil from the creek near Frisco with absorbent pads and brooms.
“It was a successful team effort,” Johnson wrote.
The incident occurred at the third river crossing, about a mile up the trail, according to Johnson.
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