YOUNGSTOWN - The malfunction of an emergency generator resulted in a fuel leak at a hospital in Youngstown on Friday afternoon.

According to Chuck Shasho, the deputy director of Youngstown Public Works, a substance was found at the Youngstown's Waste Water Treatment Plant early Friday afternoon.

Around 2 p.m., the team was able to trace it back to St. Elizabeth Hospital and discovered the substance, labeled as diesel fuel, was coming from an emergency generator located in one of the hospital's parking lots.

Shasho says of the three emergency generators the hospital has, one of them was leaking fuel due to a malfunction, and the fuel made its way through the sewer system and into the Treatment Plant.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was called out to the scene to help contain

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