Emergency personnel were called to the on Research Parkway on Thursday morning after a call came in about a possible hazardous materials spill at the research facility.
personnel, along with officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection responded to the scene and discovered that several hundred gallons of a liquid methanol and water mixture had spilled but was contained, according to reports in the Hartford Courant and on WFSB.
No one was injured as a result of the spill, the news agencies reported.
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