The Copper Canyon Fire and Medical Authority was dispatched to a semi-truck rollover at the intersection of State Route 260 and Horseshoe Bend, east of Interstate 17 in Camp Verde at 6:42 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 1.
Upon arrival crews found a semi-truck with a tanker trailer on its side carrying approximately 6,800 gallons of used motor oil.
The driver self-extricated and was uninjured.
Crews found a leak from the diesel fuel tank and one of the oil compartment doors. Both leaks were mitigated by the CCFMA engine crew, scene was turned over to the Camp Verde Marshal’s Office.
Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rocks News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been featured in Editor & Publisher magazine. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."
Upon arrival crews found a semi-truck with a tanker trailer on its side carrying approximately 6,800 gallons of used motor oil.
