Model Planes Land in Murky Situation
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The leaking fluid turned out to be printer’s ink, not a hazardous substance, but it was enough to spoil a Thursday afternoon outing of a model-airplane club in the Sepulveda Dam area.
A Los Angeles city Fire Department spokesman said about 100 members of the club, who fly model planes by remote control, were evacuated after the department was notified at 1:02 p.m. that a dark fluid was leaking from two 50-gallon drums.
Members of the department’s hazardous-materials unit determined by about 2 p.m. that the liquid was merely ink, spokesman Jim Wells said.
It is not known who dumped the drums in the dam basin or how long they had been there, he said.
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