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Kids Suffer From Chlorine Gas Poisoning During a Swim Lesson
ABC News reports that a “freak accident” led to five children falling ill after exposure to chlorine gas while swimming in a public pool. During a swim lesson, each child experienced nausea and vomiting and was taken to the hospital in Tampa, Florida.
Local fire rescue official, Corey Dierdorff, told the news that the pool’s pump shut off during severe weather, and “when everything kicked back on and that water started to circulate again, it caused those chemicals to have a chemical reaction releasing a small cloud of chemical gas.”
Thankfully, all of the children are expected to be fine, but this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. Gizmodo writes that a few years ago, a chlorine gas cloud caused 50 people at a Michigan water park to have breathing trouble.
It isn’t only public pools that can have this issue. Pool owners should read the instructions on any type of pool product carefully so as not to cause an unwanted reaction. “There are a lot of residential poisonings that occur because somebody has mixed bleach improperly with another chemical. That gas that you get when you mix bleach improperly is chlorine gas. Unforunately, it is not all that uncommon, because people don’t understand what they’re mixing,” Northern Oklahoma College instructor Frankie Wood-Black told Gizmodo.
