Police have declared an emergency declaration under the Public Safety and Preservation Act (PSPA) due to a chemical leak at Virginia this afternoon (March 9).
Emergency services were called to a factory on Newtown Street at approximately 2.35pm.
A PSPA declaration was made at approximately 3.21pm, with an exclusion zone between the intersections of Newtown Street and Robinson Road, Hadley Street and Robinson Road, Bilsen Road and Robinson Road, Lisgar Street and Pritchard Road and Newtown Street and Pritchard Road.
Police are evacuating persons from within the exclusion zone and ask members of the public to avoid the area while emergency services respond.
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