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The Sunoco gas station located at 2942 Acushnet Avenue in the north end of New Bedford was shut down on Tuesday after its fire suppression system was set off. This created a massive cloud of chemicals to expand into the sky and cover vehicles in the surrounding area.
After speaking with a witness and a worker on the scene, there was not believed to be a fire at the gas station. An employee of Trucchi’s supermarket commented on social media stating,
“I work at trucchi’s and the cloud came right towards the store, we couldn’t even see out the windows, and the stuff got all over my car.”
The video below shows the aftermath of the chemicals at the gas station:
