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If you know or suspect that a pipeline is leaking or damaged, your personal safety and the safety of those around you should be your first concern. You should follow these steps:
- Leave the area immediately.
- Avoid direct contact with the escaping liquids.
- Avoid driving into vapor clouds.
- Avoid creating sparks or sources of heat which could cause liquids or vapors rising from them, to ignite and burn. For example, do not light a match, start an engine, use a telephone or even switch on/off an electric light.
- Turn off any running machinery (engines).
- Call Olympic Pipe Line Control Center immediately at 1-888-271-8880
from a safe location.
- Give your name, phone number and a description of the leak and its location.
- Call the local emergency response agency.
Remember, even a scrape or a dent to a pipeline needs to be reported to BP
Pipelines (North America). If not promptly repaired, it
could result in a future leak or serious accident.
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