Toledo chemical leak forces evacuations into southern Michigan

We are keeping an eye on a hazmat situation that is ongoing right now in Toledo that's forcing some people to evacuate or shelter in place. We are told a late-night explosion caused a chemical leak. Fox 2's Scott Wolchek is live. He's going to join us with the latest Scott there on scene. Scott, what can you tell us? Hey, yeah, you know what? We just got out here to Toledo. We're at this kind of staging area where we've got a whole bunch of fire trucks. you've got look at this right over here we've got the EPA uh getting on scene here so yeah so basically this chemical leak happened uh they got the call last night now people within a one mile radius of Progress Avenue uh they have to evacuate three mile radius it's a shelter in place and that does extend into some southern parts of Michigan we are not that far across the border right here So I would say that here at this Alexis Road location, we're actually probably about half a mile away from where this thing happened. Now, we do know a little bit of info just about what this thing is. So the company where this happened at is called MC Tank Transport. And the chemical that has leaked is called glycidyl methacrylate. And some chemistry people can come in and tell me if I pronounced that properly. but it is mainly used for plastics and stuff. This is stuff you don't want to be breathing in people, and there's a lot of different types of resources. They do have a shelter place at Shoreland Elementary School, which is not far from where we are right now. Look, they're sending up a big old drone over here, heading probably over to where that chemical plant is. It is off in that direction. So they still don't know what caused this, but we are here just getting the latest, and, yeah, we're checking it out. talking to some people here at the staging area.