- Video shows oil spill cleanup, afterschool pickup, report from initial spill
- A pipe burst on Monday afternoon in front of Buena Vista Elementary School, spilling oil onto the intersection of Panama Lane and Buena Vista Road.
This is where parents usually line up to pick up their kids from Buena Vista Elementary School, but that routine was disrupted on Monday by these ongoing cleanup efforts.
For students and administrators, it was another day at school on Monday.
“That was right around the time that we were releasing students,” Chantel Stansberry, the public information officer with the Panama-Buena Vista School District said.
As many parents prepared to pick up their kids from school, administrators told them there would be a change to their usual pick-up location
“We were notified by local authorities that there was crude oil release outside of our Buena Vista elementary schools.”
According to the initial report from Kern Energy on Monday afternoon, crude oil began releasing from an underground pipe that runs from Bakersfield to a refinery.