The Nation - News from Oct. 9, 1986
Hundreds of residents in King of Prussia, Pa., were allowed to return home and a major highway and shopping mall were reopened as crews cleaned up a leak of as much as 220,000 gallons of gasoline. “The area is clear of danger,” Upper Merion Township Manager Ronald Wagemann said a day after the fuel leaked from a Sun Pipeline Co. distribution line. Workers with pumps and tank trucks continued removing gasoline from a stream and storm drains under the 140-store mall and a 22-mile segment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was reopened.
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