It’s one of those headlines that makes you go, “wait, what?” But in reality? How big of a deal was this?
Around 10:45 AM on Aug 22 in Fort Collins, the Poudre Fire Authority was called to a scene at the Downtown Transit Center for Transfort at North College and Jefferson in response to a CO2 spill, evacuating the building.
Buses remained running as the Poudre Fire Hazmat Team cleaned up a spill, the result of a CO2 delivery truck apparently losing some of its contents near the facility. The parking lot and surrounding area had to be closed off as the crew cleared large, frozen chunks of essentially dry ice from the area, breaking it into smaller pieces and letting it evaporate…