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Title: Potential Super Bowl Disaster Post by: dystopia on January 30, 2009, 12:27:59 PM Massive Buffalo wing sauce spill shuts down Fairfield street http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11557716?source=most_viewed Quote FAIRFIELD - Nobody was able to cross the road Monday afternoon in front of Archie Moore's restaurant after 200 gallons of chicken wing sauce spilled onto Sanford Street. (http://lonestartimes.com/images/Weidenhof/ChiefWiggumOnPhone.jpg)The street was closed several hours after the 1:30 p.m. spill as the state Haz-mat team was dispatched to the scene. Chicken wings are a signature item on the restaurant's menu and four large barrels of sauce for the spicy concoction were being delivered by Estes Express Line. As the truck driver was pushing a barrel toward the open truck door, it tipped over and spilled into the street, right in front of the restaurant. "There's sauce everywhere," Perez said. "It's halfway across the street." He said firefighters put a drying agent on the street's surface to keep the sauce from spreading as officials waited for the Haz-mat squad to arrive. (more...) |