There were high concentrations of a chemical similar to bleach that seeped into a pool at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip on Friday, causing hotel officials to evacuate some 1,500 guests and sending at least 26 people to local hospitals with breathing problems.
Richard Brenner of the Clark County Fire Department said sodium hypochlorite went into the hotel’s lazy river pool when a valve used to the control the chemical malfunctioned and remained on.
“People started smelling chlorine,” Brenner said. “It doesn’t take much to set our nose off.”
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Fire Captain Steven Nixon, from Richmond, was injured in a boating accident on the Rappahannock River last month and is facing felony charges related to the crash.
Nixon is facing involuntary manslaughter charges as well as six other felonies in the crash that killed his brother’s fiancee Amanda Brady, a Henrico school teacher. The Fire Captain’s son and wife also suffered serious injuries.
Nixon was in command of the boat when it struck a channel marker on July 5. According to court records, Nixon had been drinking at the time the boat, ...
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health warned the people of L.A. County Tuesday of two nationwide food recalls linked to salmonella. The tainted products are for certain eggs shipped from Wright County Egg company of Galt, Iowa and frozen mamey pulp fruit from COCO S.A. of Guatemala, according to a statement by the department
“Public Health is coordinating with state and federal agencies on this issue and has reached out to food distributors and retailers throughout the county to ensure that these product are removed from vendors’ shelves.” said ...
Parents love bounce houses and children love bouncing in them. However, according to Attorney General Jerry Brown of California, it may also be toxic.
A lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by Mr. Brown’s office and claims that some of the inflatable bounce houses that help entertain young children at parties have unsafe levels of lead, sometimes dozens of times the federal limit.
“I was surprised,” said Mr. Brown, who is running for governor in a state with 2.7 million children under age 5. “But as we test more and more of these ...
Dr. Frank Ryan, 50, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon died when his Jeep Wrangler veered off Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday. It appears he posted to Twitter minutes before the crash and may have been texting at the time of the accident, according to his ex-girlfriend.
The surgeon posted a picture of his dog, a border collie, at the beach on Twitter at 4:10 p.m. and 2o minutes later the accident occurred. Ryan was driving south on PCH north of Deer Creek Road, when his car swerved and ...
A fatal car accident occurred on the I-215 in Salt Lake County. A Toyota Camry traveling the wrong direction westbound on I-215 collided head-on with a tanker truck which caused a massive fire this morning. Unified Fire Authority states the accident occurred on I-215 westbound at 6200 South and 2300 East at around 10 a.m and confirmed the driver of the car was killed in the accident.
The driver of the tanker truck was in serious condition and taken to the Intermountain Medical Center. At this time the I-215 is closed ...
An off-road racing accident in California’s Mojave Desert has left eight people dead and 12 injured. The accident may have occurred because fans wanted to get too close to the speeding trucks.
Hundreds of stunned off-road racing fans looked on horrified Saturday night at the carnage at the California 200 in the Mojave Desert, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, after driver Brett M. Sloppy, 28, lost control of his truck that then catapulted into the crowd at high speed.
Sloppy was driving a modified Ford Ranger along the 50-mile track at ...
According to the California Highway Patrol the Golden Gate Bridge reopened at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday after a collision involving at least four vehicles shut down all lanes. The collision caused quite a traffic back up into San Francisco.
CHP Sgt. Diana McDermott stated the accident occurred shortly after 9 a.m. when a big rig truck headed north rear-ended a Kia about 300 feet past the toll plaza, causing the smaller vehicle to cross over into southbound traffic. Immediately following this a red Porsche headed south broadsided the Kia. A fourth vehicle ...
A 3-year-old boy in Lehi, Utah was in critical condition on Tuesday morning after an accident in his home.
According to Lt. Darren Paul with the Lehi Police Department the boy’s mother called 911 because the boy was turning purple and having trouble breathing. The boy and his 18-month-old sibling were playing in a room with a fold-able metal table with legs that fold underneath like scissors. While playing with the table the children somehow knocked down the table and their mother heard the crash and responded. She checked on them ...
