Sometime this evening, we got toned out to Melrose Rd in the Melrose section of our town. A truck was driving down the street and a box fell off that back of it. An old lady picked up the box and brought it inside her house. When she picked it up, she noticed white powder fell out of it.
DEP tested the powder to see if it contained living organisms and it tested POSITIVE.
One of our loudmouth firefighters was warned to keep his mouth shut at the onset of this call. He wound up going around telling the ambulance that we had a high inhalation hazard. This of course got repeated over CMED, and before you knew it everyone but us was buzzing about how their was this big threat in East Windsor.
However, it turned out that it was a Typhoid vaccine and not anthrax. The DEP guy said that their was no inhalation threat and the worse that would happen to anyone who was exposed is that they would get a case of the runs for a few days.
DEP tested the powder to see if it contained living organisms and it tested POSITIVE.
One of our loudmouth firefighters was warned to keep his mouth shut at the onset of this call. He wound up going around telling the ambulance that we had a high inhalation hazard. This of course got repeated over CMED, and before you knew it everyone but us was buzzing about how their was this big threat in East Windsor.
However, it turned out that it was a Typhoid vaccine and not anthrax. The DEP guy said that their was no inhalation threat and the worse that would happen to anyone who was exposed is that they would get a case of the runs for a few days.
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