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50 gallons of cooking oil spilled into a Village of Ridgewood municipal parking lot

50 gallons of cooking oil spilled into a Village of Ridgewood municipal parking lot

photos courtesy of Boyd Loving’s Facebook page

June 29,2017

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ,  Approximately 50 gallons of cooking oil spilled into a Village of Ridgewood municipal parking lot on Wednesday morning, 06/28. Officials from the Village’s Health, Police, Fire, Engineering, and Sanitation departments responded to investigate the incident. Fire department personnel applied an absorbent material to the affected surface areas and a private contractor was called to undertake a thorough clean up process. It is believed that 55 gallon drum containing the cooking oil was inadvertently knocked over by a refuse removal contractor trying to access a nearby garbage dumpster.

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3 thoughts on “50 gallons of cooking oil spilled into a Village of Ridgewood municipal parking lot

  1. They just wanted to make an enormous paella for the Guinness Book of World Records.

  2. All these personnel for cooking oil? You must be kidding,waste of taxpayer monies.

  3. send the sweeper to sweep it up. huhhhhhh, yeahhhhhhhhhhhh

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