{"id":7990,"date":"2024-08-22T00:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2024-08-22T00:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:18:49","slug":"17-hospitalized-due-to-chemical-leak-in-laguna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/17-hospitalized-due-to-chemical-leak-in-laguna\/","title":{"rendered":"17 HOSPITALIZED DUE TO CHEMICAL LEAK IN LAGUNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEVENTEEN people on Tuesday were rushed to the hospital after inhaling a chemical substance that accidentally leaked from a cylinder tank in Cabuyao City, Laguna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police are verifying the names of the victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigation showed the <\/strong><strong>leak occurred around 2 p.m. on Tuesday when workers&nbsp; at the <\/strong><strong>Izbanda Scrap Trading junkshop in Bgy. Banaybanay, Cabuyao City were cleaning the place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The workers moved the four-foot cylinder tank containing liquid gas that caused the leak of a yellow green chemical producing a strong toxic odor inhaled by people in the area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected residents complained of dizziness while some vomited and experienced shortness of breath.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personnel of the <\/strong><strong>City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office responded and rushed the victims to the nearest hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to junkshop supervior Ramon Villareal, the chemicals that have been stored for a long time in the cylinder tank could be the possible source of the pungent smell.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police are investigating the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEVENTEEN people on Tuesday were rushed to the hospital after inhaling a chemical substance that accidentally leaked from a cylinder tank in Cabuyao City, Laguna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}