UPDATE: A longer, updated version of this story can be found HERE.

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Firefighters are at North 36th and North Warner Lawrence in Tacoma, where a dump truck apparently has gone over an embankment and is leaking diesel fuel.

No reports of injuries, One person taken to the hospital, and the state Department of Ecology and hazardous material teams have been called in to assess the situation and initiate a cleanup.

You can read the Tacoma Fire Department’s account here.

Crews using vacuum trucks spent Friday cleaning up diesel fuel that spilled in Steilacoom, the state Department of Ecology reported.

Ecology officials were notified about 10 p.m. Thursday of fuel in storm drains and ditches. Investigators tracked the source of the fuel to a residence on Nisqually Avenue. The cause of the spill remained unknown Friday afternoon, Ecology spokeswoman Linda Kent said.

Officials said a small amount of diesel sheen may occur at the outfall near the landing for the Steilacoom-Anderson Island Ferry at 56 Union Avenue in Steilacoom.

An employee at a Sumner business was hospitalized today after inhaling possibly hazardous chemicals, fire officials said.

The Pierce County Hazardous Materials Incident Team was called to Northwest Health Care Linen at 3107 142^nd Avenue East just before noon after a worker became ill while handling linens from a hospital.

The hazmat team evacuated nearby businesses as a precaution and investigated the scene.

East Pierce Fire & Rescue Chief Jim Jaques said the illness was likely caused by several mop heads coated with cleaning chemicals.

The chemicals were sent to the Department of Ecology to be analyzed.

An estimated 20-40 gallons of diesel fuel spilled into the Foss Waterway this morning. Tacoma Fire crews and other emergency responders are on the scene, setting up containment booms.

No information yet on the source of the spill.

Nearly 1,000 gallons of jet fuel spilled onto a tarmac at Joint Base Lewis-McChord this morning, but crews cleaned it up before the fuel could contaminate any nearby soil or water, officials said.

Military officials notified the state Department of Ecology about the spill about 6:10 a.m., said Curt Hart, a spokesman for the agency.

An Ecology spill-response team responded to the base and found the fuel contained in a catch basin, Hart said.

Military crews were in the process of cleaning up the spill, he said.

“It didn’t get out into the environment,” Hart said. “We were satisfied with …

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