{"id":14372,"date":"2015-11-06T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/hazardous-materials-leak-in-kent-sends-two-to-hospital\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:15:38","slug":"hazardous-materials-leak-in-kent-sends-two-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/hazardous-materials-leak-in-kent-sends-two-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazardous materials leak in Kent sends two to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A leaking container in a semi-truck sent two people to local hospitals on Thursday evening after they and three others were exposed to the fumes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority was dispatched at about 10:15 p.m. to a business in the <a title=\"map\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/21800+76th+Ave+S,+Kent,+WA+98032\/@47.4069744,-122.2387169,15z\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x54905c6e7365724d:0x6172e9c30a9e446a\" target=\"_self\">21800 block of 76th Avenue South<\/a> after five workers entered the back of a semi-tuck where, unknown to them, a plastic tote with 119 gallons of liquid organic peroxide had begun leaking.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>King County paramedics evaluated all five people and transported two to hospitals, according to a Kent Fire Department media release. The other three recovered after returning to fresh air.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hazardous materials teams from around South King County, including Kent, responded to the call.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Once the leaking material was identified and isolated, clean up was turned over to a private company specializing in dealing with hazardous material spills.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaking container in a semi-truck sent two people to local hospitals on Thursday evening after they and three others were exposed to the fumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}