Building evacuated after transformers leak in Hackensack tractor-trailer crash

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A tractor-trailer making a warehouse delivery in Hackensack struck a utility pole, bursting two electrical transformers that leaked hazardous fluid onto the roadway and an adjacent parking lot.

Photo Credit: *CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Boyd A. Loving*

Jerry DeMarco

10/31/2014 6:03 p.m.

Fifteen occupants at Eastern Datacomm on Commerce Way were evacuated by orders of the Hackensack Fire Department battalion chief as a precautionary measure following the noon mishap.

Workers from PSE&G were called to repair the damage.

A Bergen County Hazardous Materials unit also responded, along with Hackensack police.

No injuries were reported.

STORY/PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Boyd A. Loving

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