Workers Ill from Chemical Exposure in North Hollywood

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA -- Firefighters are on the scene in North Hollywood where employees at a storage facility near a near medical lab suffered respiratory distress after being exposed to an unknown chemical, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

At about noon, firefighters were called to the storage facility in the 11600 block of Sherman Way in the North Hollywood area.

The workers are being treated, and there is no threat to the surrounding community, said Los Angeles Fire Department Spokesman Brian Humphrey.

“There is no off site hazard,” he said.

Investigators are still trying to determine what chemical the workers were exposed to, but it is believed to have been a chemical used in “fire extinguishing.”

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