Adults feel ill from chemical odor at Washington Ave building, Evansville IN
Medical EmergencySeveral adults and fire personnel at a building near Washington Ave felt ill due to a strong chemical odor. The building was evacuated, and fire crews are investigating for hazardous substances.
Audio|Source: Vanderburgh County Police, Fire, and EMS
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Transcript:
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Chief, I've got three adults, part of the staff are feeling ill from, it's almost like a clean type smell, and then two of my guys have got a headache coming off since we've arrived.
00:09
Ladder 14s here are checking with their detector since it's one additional gas than ours.
00:13
We're not finding anything.
00:14
Our only other thought was considering a safety officer of the squad for VOC detector.
00:19
Didn't know what your thoughts were.
00:20
Yeah, I'm currently getting me to roll up on their car accident here, or the car fire.
00:29
I'll talk to the squad.
00:30
Just get everybody cleared out.
00:32
Has everyone been evacuated?
00:33
Yeah, sorry, everybody's evacuated, and so far everybody's evacuated, and so far, everybody refused any bill.
00:37
Okay, I'll be arriving here on scene with them momentarily.
00:41
I'll probably get the squad headed over, see what we can find out.
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Location mentioned:
Near Washington Ave, Evansville, IN 47714
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