SIX ONTARIO, NEW YORK, AMBULANCE WORKERS had to be hospitalized Friday night after they inhaled fumes from muriatic acid that had been spilled as a result of a vehicle crash. A pickup truck was carrying a 1-gallon container of the brick-cleaning acid when it was involved in a crash in Ontario which is near Rochester.
WHEC-TV
The driver was still inside the cab when the ambulances arrived and treatment began on him on site. The spill was not detected immediately, or ignored, and the EMT’s did not suffer any immediate effects from it. But after getting the patient loaded in the ambulance, they all started noticing a burning sensation in their respiratory systems.
Some of them have been released from the hospital, but an undisclosed number are still being treated this morning. The drivers of the two vehicles that collided were also transported.
WHEC-TV filed this video report – click on the upper left image:
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