Boulevard Reopened 7 Hours After Accident
Abusy stretch of Ventura Boulevard near White Oak Avenue in Encino was reopened to traffic about 1 a.m. Wednesday after being closed for about 7 hours while workers removed a gasoline tank trailer that fell into a hole, the Los Angeles city Fire Department reported.
The trailer, loaded with about 4,000 gallons of gasoline, toppled into an excavation for an underground storage tank at a Union 76 station at Ventura and Zelzah Avenue.
After the gasoline, which weighed about 40,000 pounds, was pumped into another truck, two tow trucks hoisted the trailer out of the hole, a Fire Department spokesman said.
No gasoline leaked, he said.
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