A truck slid and crashed into a propane tank on a residential property in the 4200 block of Federal Hill Road in Jarrettsville Monday evening, sending the tank rolling into the nearby woods and causing a gas leak, according to Harford County fire officials.
No one was injured in the accident, and members of the Jarrettsville Volunteer Fire Company and the Harford County HAZMAT Response Team got the leak under control, Jennifer Chenworth-Price, a spokeswoman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association, said.
The fire company and HAZMAT team were alerted at 6:04 p.m., and they left the scene at 7:31 p.m., Chenworth-Price said.
She said the propane was released in a gas form after the homeowner, driving a truck on the property, slid into the 500-gallon tank and "sheared it off at the valve."
"It was an active propane leak," she said via text message.
Chenworth-Price said emergency workers controlled the leak by plugging the valve.