Park to reopen after chlorine exposure
A hazmat team responded to Tully Park pool, where three men were hospitalized after a chemical exposure inside the aquatic center, officials said. (May 19, 2011) Credit: Lou Minutoli
A North Hempstead Town swimming pool and park was expected to be open Friday after an accident Thursday in which three town workers were hospitalized after exposure to chlorine fumes, a town spokesman said.
The three men were in good condition late Thursday at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola and were being held overnight for observation, town spokesman Sid Nathan said.
He said the men were exposed to the fumes when one of them opened a chlorine storage pod that had taken in water from a drainage pipe inside a basement area of the Aquatic Activities Center at Michael J. Tully Jr. Park on Evergreen Avenue in New Hyde Par.
The accident at about 7:20 a.m. drew a rapid emergency response from the Nassau County Fire Marshal's Office hazmat team, the Nassau County police Emergency Services Unit and firefighters from Garden City Park, New Hyde Park, Mineola and Williston Park.
North Hempstead's commissioner of public safety, Andrew DeMartin, told Newsday that the three men were treated at the scene by Garden City Park EMTs for "eye irritation and labored breathing" before being taken to Winthrop.
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