Update: Hazmat response at West Seattle’s Southwest Precinct

(WSB photo: Some of the many SFD units that staged on SW Webster alongside the precinct)
3:19 PM: If you’ve seen the fire units rushing by – it’s a hazardous-materials (hazmat) response to 2300 SW Webster, which happens to be the Seattle Police Southwest Precinct. Updates to come.

3:29 PM: From our crew at the scene as well as scanner traffic: This will all be clearing soon – no hazmat, nobody sick/injured. Someone dropped off an unknown substance at the precinct; turned out, apparently, to be a solvent and/or paint thinner (or something similar), according to early assessment.

P.S. We don’t know the exact circumstances of how/why the substance was brought to the precinct, but if you have “household hazardous waste,” here’s info on how to dispose of it safely.

coffee January 4, 2015 (3:24 pm)

Several that were headed to west Seattle on the bridge too!

WSB January 4, 2015 (3:31 pm)

Those are the hazmat/rescue units that are based elsewhere in the city, primarily in SODO. Whenever you see them, you know it’s a big *callout* – whether the incident actually pans out as major is another issue, but as we’ve discussed here many, many times, they have to send the big response just in case, so much easier to have them and cancel them, than to arrive and discover it’s worse than thought and have to summon backup – minutes can cost lives. – TR