Road Salt Sparks Hazmat Situation, Shuts Down Emerson ER (VIDEO)
The emergency room at Emerson Hospital was shut down for more than three hours Saturday night after a Stow woman walked into the emergency department with a medical condition possibly caused by the substance.
A hazmat situation arose at Emerson Hospital’s emergency department on Saturday night after a Stow woman showed up there presenting an illness and was decontaminated due to a white, potentially hazardous material later identified as road salt. The ER was shut down for several hours the evening of Nov. 17 as emergency responders and a hazmat team secured the potentially contaminated areas. Eventually, six individuals—the woman, a person who showed up with the patient and four others—were decontaminated, according to a hospital spokesperson and Concord Fire Chief Mark Cotreau, who briefed media assembled at the scene. The Concord Fire and Police departments were called to the scene just after 5 p.m., and just after 8:30 p.m., Bonnie Kaplan …
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Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III
9:37 am on Monday, November 19, 2012
It would be nice to have the roads light up on dark snowy winter nights. Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III more ›