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"A portion of Murphy Road remained closed hours after an acid spill forced authorities to shut down the road as a precaution earlier in the day.Investigators said bad weather and bad timing played roles in a container filled with 1,200 gallons of diluted sulfuric acid tipping over on soggy ground, spilling onto a field worker nearby.\"He was able to get away from it like that and got his clothes off, and once we got the call, the engine company came down, they decontaminated him,\" said Cliff Williams from Cal-Fire.The man suffered second-degree burns to one-third of his body, including most of his back and arms. He was flown to a Bay area trauma center where he was being treated in a burn unit.The acid is injected into irrigation water in a diluted form to change the pH balance of the water to make it more acidic.Emergency workers were worried that the acid would turn into a gas so they blocked off Murphy Road, which connects Highway 129 with San Juan Road.\"We live right on the other side of the road, so this is like a shortcut,\" said Alma Hernandez. \"Otherwise, we have to go all the way down to Pajaro and then come around.\"Fortunately, fumes never visibly formed, but county health officials were worried enough that they asked field workers downwind to move and kept signs up to keep the public out.The property owners are responsible for cleaning up the spill. They said a crew was en route from Santa Maria. Monterey County officials said the best way to clean up the spill is to remove the diluted sulfuric acid from inside the 1,200-gallon container and scoop out the contaminated soil."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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