Breaking News: 6 People Being Treated at Children's Hospital After Exposure to Unkown Substance

WTMJ AM 620 Radio/WTMJ 4 TV ^ | Friday June 8, 2007

[Milwaukee_Guy]

6 People Being Treated After Exposure to Substance

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Children's Hospital says its emergency room is back open.  Haz mat crews are at the hospital.  A spokeswoman, Jackie Gauger, says a patient came to the hospital today after coming in contact with an unknown substance.

That patient and their mother were both sick.  Four other people at the hospital are now also being treated.

Gauger wasn't sure exactly why Haz Mat teams responded to the hospital.  There were reports that a substance in a backpack is making people sick.

It appears this case is somehow related to Meonomonee Falls High School, but it's not clear yet how.  Calls to the high school were not immedeately returned.

Stay with Newsradio 620 WTMJ for more as we get it.

[Uncle Miltie]

Hey, man, it's just my lunch!

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Spokesperson would not identify what agent the patient was exposed to or where/how the patient was exposed.

[KylaStarr]

btt

[sono]

Despite previous report, ER is open. Hazmat on the scene.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

“Gauger wasn’t sure exactly why Haz Mat teams responded to the hospital”

How would Hazmat know to respond if they were not summoned? It appears that the Milwaukee County Sheriff is the lead agency (per initial reports) so why would they be invilved unless they were contacted from the hospital?

[steveo]

That patient and their mother were both side.

Right or left?

[AD from SpringBay]

At a children’s hospital - if this is a deliberate attack, who would target children?

[RushCrush]

There's only one bag that's ever made me sick:

[BJClinton]

Didn’t they do this on ER?

[MediaMole]

MKE sheriff has jursidiction on the County Grounds where the hospitals are located. The sheriff’s dept was providing security, but the Wauwatosa Fire department was in charge of the scene.

Wauwatosa Fire requested Milwaukee Hazmat for mutual aid. Specifically to identify the product they were dealing with.

[Abathar]

Do you even have to ask?

(Hint: TROP)

[DCBryan1]

Muzzies with a bioweapon? Sounds like their kind of MO to hit a hospital full of kids with a WMD.

[Lurking in Kansas]

A bag of dirty diapers??

[Milwaukee_Guy]

WTMJ AM 620 now reporting that there is a response at Menomonee Falls High School that is related to the situation at Children’s Hospital.

Also - WTMJ radio is reporting that -six- people are being treated.

Take the inital spokesbabe story with a grain of salt.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Major cluster in progress.....

[3D-JOY]

Thanks for the update...keep them coming.

[BJClinton]

Could also be an industrial chemical like benzene that someone tracked in.

[Cicero]

That sounds as if the problem may have been at the high school rather than the hospital.

[Shelayne]

Oh dear. Prayers this is nothing serious.

[xjcsa]

At a children’s hospital - if this is a deliberate attack, who would target children?

Who indeed?