Posted on 09/01/2019 7:35:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The San Jose Fire Department says the incident began around 10 a.m. Saturday when hotel staff called 9-1-1 to report an apparent suicide involving chemicals, according to San Jose Fire Dept. Captain Mitch Matlow.
At a media briefing early Sunday evening, Matlow indicated that the chemicals involved in the incident were identified, however could not reveal what those chemicals were due to an investigation by the San Jose Police Department.
A chemical odor, described as a rotten egg smell, would remain detectable by guests. "The chemicals that caused the problem will not create an issue for guests when they first smell it," saiat Matlow.
As a result of the investigation, Market Street is closed to vehicles and pedestrians.
The San Jose Police Department is leading the investigation into the death. The deceased is an adult female, and officials haven't announced if they believe she was a hotel guest or an employee of the hotel.
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Background checks comes to mind.
I’m just trying to figure out what the big secret it as to what chemicals involved.
Rotten eggs? Sulfur dioxide, which is poisonous.
Possibly some common everyday household cleaners combined to make something deadly?
Clorox combined with acid is nasty.
Ammonia.
Hydrogen sulfide. Deadly and it deadens your sense of smell.
Combining bleach and ammonia is a common mistake people make once. The resulting vapor will either kill them or provide a potent reminder not to do it again.
Found the body at 10:00 am.
Did the person pass late in the night while trying to mix a BIG batch for the entire hotel’s HVAC system?
What about after a while? Will the chemicals create an issue, for guests, then???
Unreal.
“As a result of the investigation, Market Street is closed to vehicles and pedestrians.”
But no danger if you’re inside. LOL
It’s now being reported the woman used the chemicals to commit suicide.
Or she opened a natural gas line trying to blow the place up.
These “apparent suicides” are getting weirder by the day. Seems to be a catch-all phrase, a kind of a Newspeak operation.
Probably less weird than it sounds. A few years ago I read an article about websites/forums where people discuss painless ways to commit suicide. Apparently they frequently suggest the use of a handful of chemicals to do the job. They even have warning signs you can print and tape to your door or car window to warn first responders of the danger. And yes, it is most prevalent in Japan where they tend to take things like this to the logical extreme.
Correct. Mixed together certain household chemicals can result in the release of chlorine gas, which, as you probably already know, was used as a chemical weapon during WWI.
Accidentally did this myself when cleaning up my base housing unit for turn-in back in the 1970s. Happened in the kitchen as I recall. I don’t remember a distinct smell because just the slightest whiff was enough to tell my brain to get out of the space pronto and then do max ventilation to get the place aired out and the chemical cocktail cleared out.
Today, of course, cleaning products have very general warnings on their labels about not mixing cleaning products. I haven’t done it myself (and don’t intend to), but there are probably pretty specific postings on the Internet telling which cleaning products on which proportions yield toxic gases, etc. when mixed together. Why? Because in the minds of some...persons ...”information” must “be free”; no matter how irresponsible it is to make it available to the general public. Well, at least today there are monitoring groups going to such websites and either getting content taken down or monitoring who specifically is accessing it.
I was the leader of the Hazmat Team on my shift for years. While combining bleach and ammonia does release toxic and irritating chloramine gas, it would be pretty difficult to kill yourself with it. But it can be very unpleasant if you do it in an enclosed space.
I used to dig into mole hills and put a coke can that I had cut in half in it and pour bleach and ammonia into the can. Then I would put a cover over the hole so the gas would chase the moles off. I never found a dead mole, but it did seem to chase them off. Afterward I would just flush the cans out with the garden hose. It never did any damage to the yard. This was someone else’s idea so I can't take credit for it.
The hydrogen sulfide suicide thing was pretty big a few years ago. I am sorry that it might be making a comeback. You can make small amounts of hydrogen sulphide gas just by heating sulfur and candle wax together. It is very nasty. I got into big trouble for stinking up the house when I was a kid. My parents took away the super deluxe chemistry kit that I had put together. They didn't offer to give it back until I was about 30.
Hydrogen sulfide
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