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Chemical
Spill at
Pendleton’s
Public
Pool
Link to
Brown
Pool
Pendleton,
Indiana
May 21st
– On
Thursday
afternoon
around
2:24 pm
Brown’s
Pool
employee’s
reported
a
hazardous
chemical
spill
involving
approximately
300
gallons
of
hydrochloric
acid at
the
maintenance
building
just
south of
the
public
swimming
pool on
Water
Street.
Emergency
teams
from the
Pendleton
Fire
Department,
EMS, and
the
Pendleton
Police
Department’s
were
first on
the
scene.
The
Pendleton
Fire
Department
summoned
additional
emergency
teams
included
a
hazardous
disposal
team
from
Indianapolis.
About 50
homes to
the
north
and east
of Water
Street,
as well
as, the
Pendleton,
Indiana
Public
Library
were
evacuated
as a
precautionary
measure.
No
evacuations
at
Rawlings
House or
the Fall
Creek
Retirement
Village
were
reported.
Fast
work on
behalf
of the
staff at
Brown
Pool and
the
Pendleton,
Indiana’s
emergency
department’s
averted
what
could
have
been a
very
harmful
situation.
Hydrochloride
is a
corrosive
chemical.
Inhalation
of
vapors
can
cause
coughing,
choking,
inflammation
of the
nose,
throat,
and
upper
respiratory
tract,
and in
severe
cases,
pulmonary
edema,
circulatory
failure,
and
death. |
