Detached gas tanker promptly taken to filing stationA Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) tanker lorry carrying LPG gas from Kochi to Coimbatore overturned on the Uppilipalayam flyover, and the tanker detached from the truck.
Suddenly, the gas started leaking as the tanker got damaged, and the fire department immediately pressed into service, they added. The team splashed water to prevent the gas from mixing with the air from the tanker, sources further said. After seven long hours of operations, the truck was safely displaced from the road, sources confirmed.
The fire team asserted that the gas tanker was safely removed after checking with the gas monitoring system (GMS-Gas Monitoring System). Later, the vehicle coupled with a gas tanker was taken to a gas filling station in Ganapati Nagar, officials said.