Families describe nearly two days away from home after chemical leak evacuation

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Some had family to turn to. Others had nowhere to go but their cars. Either way, what they thought would be a short evacuation turned into nearly two days away from home after a chemical leak at MC Tank Transport Inc. on Progress Avenue prompted evacuations in the surrounding area.

“I would never want to experience that thing ever again, to have to sleep in my car. But I had nowhere else to go,” said Candice Eiler.

For Eiler, home became a parking space. An officer knocked on her door Tuesday night. She packed up her four dogs and left Rain Tree Village. She spent the next two nights in her car at Meijer…

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