Update: Information refined and video added.
IT ALL STARTED INNOCENTLY ENOUGH at the A T & T call center in San Jose, Californina. One of the hygenic-minded employees decided to clear out some old lunch remnants from the mini-fridge in the break room. The lady doing the good deed had just had surgery on her nasal passages for allergies and she couldn’t smell anything. The ideal candidate for the task.
After first rolling the fridge into an adjoining conference room, she removed the rotting meats and curdled cheeses, she placed them on a table. Next she started cleaning out the refrigerator with a good disinfectant. Meanwhile, the rest of the workforce who all had their olfactories in working order started gagging on the smells emanating from the room. So one enterprising person got some sort of aerosol deodorant to combat the horrible stench.
The trouble with that was that instead of being deodorant, it was a spot cleaner and the fumes found their way over to the Lysol-laden refrigerator and started forming the classic chemical reaction. Before you could say “quicker picker-upper” the now-noxious fumes triggered a full evacuation of 325 people and a special call for the San Jose FD Haz-Mat squad. Shortly after their arrival they struck a 2nd alarm and eventually seven people were hospitalized and untold dozens were vomiting in the parking lot.
But the refrigerator is clean now.
Read the FULL STORY in the San Jose Mercury News.
The Associated Press filed this video report:
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