Fire districts 3 and 10 crews respond to ammonia leak on Thorpe Road

Crews from Spokane County Fire Districts 3 and 10 responded to an ammonia leak at the Johanna Beverage Company, located on the 5000 block of West Thorpe Road on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Mitch Metzger, Fire District 10 deputy fire chief and Airway Heights Fire Department fire chief, said crews first received an emergency call from the Flying J truck stop about a man who was sick from an ammonia leak.

“We initially were going to evacuate Best Western (Peppertree Airport Inn),” Metzger said. “We were told the leak was at Johanna Beverages and the employees got out of the building and crossed the highwa...

 

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