From: Inside Climate News
Apr 11, 2013
As residents and local officials of Mayflower, Ark. were scrambling
to evacuate homes and protect their treasured fishing lake from a river
of heavy oil pouring through their town on Good Friday afternoon,
ExxonMobil, the company responsible for the accident, didn't know what
was happening.
A 22-foot gash had opened up in its oil pipeline that cut through the
Arkansas town, 450 miles from its headquarters in Houston, and the
people were in a sudden uproar. In the emergency response, dispatchers
called Exxon and informed them of the unfolding disaster, and company
employees arrived on the scene an hour after the emergency was first
reported to local authorities.
That is the picture that emerges from transcripts of 911 police
reports obtained by InsideClimate News from the Faulkner County
Sheriff's Office. MORE
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