ANGWIN – Hazmat crews responded Thursday evening after an overturned trailer dumped 800 gallons of liquid fertilizer on a rural road in the Pope Valley community of Napa County.
The trailer full of calcium ammonium nitrate was being towed by a pickup truck when it overturned in the 1900 block of Howell Mountain Road around 5:45 p.m., the CHP said.
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No one was injured in the wreck, but firefighters kept a close eye on the scene because fumes from the fertilizer could start a fire, CHP officer Marc Renspurger said.
As of 9 p.m., Howell Mountain Road remained closed from White Cottage Road to Chiles Pope Valley Road. There was no estimated time for the road to reopen. Motorists can use Ink Grade as an alternate route.
CalFire, Napa County firefighters and the California Highway Patrol responded to the scene.
