Fuel Tanker Truck Crashes in the Cajon Pass

Date/Time: 04/02/2024, 12:49 AM
Location: Northbound 15, between Kenwood & Blue Cut
Incident: Hazardous Material Incident

Summary:

Early this morning San Bernardino County Fire crews were dispatched to a reported traffic collision involving a tractor trailer. Firefighters arrived to find a gasoline tanker truck that had crashed & careened off Interstate 15 approximately 50-75 feet.

Upon investigation crews found the truck had spilled approximately 60 gallons of fuel & carrying a load of approximately 8,000 gallons of gasoline. Due to the hazards involved, the call was balanced to a Hazardous Materials Incident.

Multiple #SBCoFD Hazardous Materials Teams were requested to mitigate the fuel leak & transfer the fuel from the damaged tanker. Specially trained firefighters worked closely with law enforcement and the fuel trucking company to offload the product to an additional tanker truck. Firefighter utilized special equipment to safely drill in to each tank and transfer fuel to the new tanker truck. Flammability & environmental concerns were a top priority.

Despite these challenges firefighters successfully offload more the 8650 gallons of fuel from the crashed tanker truck. The process took more than 6 hours to safely complete. Once the hazards were mitigated, the scene was turned over to CALTRANS, CHP & tow company for clean-up.

No injuries to firefighters or citizens were reported from the hazardous material incident. One party was transported by ambulance from the original traffic collision.

San Bernardino County Fire responded with two Engines, two Hazardous Materials Teams, and two Chief Officers.