There were some tense moments this morning near McCreary, when an anhydrous ammonia leak occurred at the Turko Fertilizer plant.

It sent up a cloud in the immediate area, and a local resident tells us the municipality issued an evacuation alert, although so far, no one's had to leave.

Facility Manager Tasha Turko says an employee pulled a hose away from a container called a bullet.

"And the pull away protection that was installed and in place that they were relying on just wasn't activated," she says, "So we are very fortunate, the wind is from the north today, so basically, the anhydrous is drifting away from the town, and it's not drifting toward any farm sites or anybody's homes. None of our employees was injured."

Turko describes what she saw.

"They've shut it all down now," she says, "It's still drifting a slight bit. I'm not really sure what's leaking now, but for the most part, the cloud has gone down dramatically just in the time we're speaking, and the fire crews went in, and just whatever one last thing that they have to do here."