Auburn Fire Chief Geoff Low, left, and Battalion Chief Don Flanagan walk past a patch of home heating oil in the recreation yard of the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn on Wednesday. About 600 to 1,000 gallons of heating oil spilled when an oil dealer was filling the tank in the basement and a system failure occurred, Low said. Nobody had to be evacuated from the building. The spill was contained to an area in the basement and into the recreation yard where inmates shoot basketball during the warmer months. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal)
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