Runoff from a massive industrial fire in Etobicoke on Friday has left dead fish and ducks in a Toronto creek, the Ontario environment ministry said on Monday.
A duck is pictured here after it was captured from Mimico Creek by a rescue team from the Toronto Wildlife Centre. Runoff from a massive industrial fire on Friday seeped into the creek, leaving dead ducks and fish. Some ducks that survived were covered by an oily sludge.
The ministry added it has taken samples of the impacted creeks and is in the process of analyzing them. Environment ministry staff have been on the site of the spill since Friday, when containment and cleanup efforts began with the help of Toronto Water, Brenntag Canada and cleanup crews the company has hired to contain the spill, the ministry said.
Measures to contain the spill and absorb the substance include using booms and hay bales, installing underflow dams, deploying vacuum trucks to collect the oil slurry and diverting discharges from reaching the creeks, the ministry said. In a Facebook post on Monday, the centre said its team has captured 49 ducks in Mimico Creek since Saturday. The team brought the ducks into the centre to undergo "specialized baths" to remove "harmful run-off" from the fire."This is only after the patients were deemed medically stable, and received treatment to help rid them of any ingested chemicals with a charcoal flush.
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