A spill of chemicals at Sheboygan’s Blue Harbor Resort on Monday sent fire, medical and HazMat rushing to the scene after an employee was overcome by fumes.
Sheboygan Fire Department BattalionChief Pat Nicolaus said they received the call of a possible hazardous material leak in the pool filtration room area at 12:24 Monday afternoon. The first units arriving on the scene were told by the employee that he’d opened the door to the filtration room and was overcome with fumes. He immediately closed the door and called the fire department. Firefighters then evacuated the immediate area of the filtration room pending the arrival of the HazMat team.
Those responders entered the filtration room in fully encapsulated suits and found two hoses that were disconnected from the filtration system. The hoses had spilled a minimal amount of chemicals onto the floor which then mixed, reacting together to cause the noxious oder and fumes.
After the HazMat team turned off the pumps and valves controlling the part of the filtration system involved in the spill, fire department crews washed down the area and diluted the chemicals to make the area safe. There were no further problems or injuries resulting from the incident.
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