{"id":4509,"date":"2015-08-07T14:12:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/bear-repellent-accidentally-discharged-at-seatac-hotel\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:40:34","slug":"bear-repellent-accidentally-discharged-at-seatac-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/bear-repellent-accidentally-discharged-at-seatac-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear repellent accidentally discharged at SeaTac hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine people were treated, including two transported to a local hospital, after an employee accidentally discharged a canister of bear repellent in a hotel room in the 19600 block of International Boulevard <\/a>in SeaTac.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Kent Fire Department Regional Fire Authority was dispatched to the hotel at about 10:30 a.m. Friday after employees reported that there was a possible chemical release that was making people gag and cough, according to a fire department media release. The hotel was evacuated as the smell got stronger and spread to several floors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The call was treated as both a hazardous materials investigation because of an unknown substance, and as a mass casualty incident (MCI) due to the number of potential patients. MCI calls are classified by number of patients which automatically dispatches the correct number of medical units and ambulances.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

All nine people examined and treated were hotel employees. Both people transported to a hospital were sent in as a precaution.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The staff member who found the canister of bear repellent did not know what it was and discharged the aerosol accidentlly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Kent Fire Department serves the cities of Kent, SeaTac and Covington as well as King County Fire District 37.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine people were treated and two transported to a local hospital after an employee accidentally discharged a canister of bear repellent in a hotel room in the 19600 block of International Boulevard in SeaTac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":4510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}