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Several Quarantined in Yonkers
News 12 ^ | 5-16-02

Posted on 05/16/2002 6:40:15 PM PDT by dogbyte12

/16/02) YONKERS - St. Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers has been closed. The entire community surrounding 223 Nepperhan Avenue and Elm Street has been closed. At least two people are on life support. Reports say several hundred people have been quarantined.

Reports suggest that cyanide gas may be responsible.

Stay tuned to News 12 Westchester for continuing live coverage and Chopper 12 footage.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cyanide; yonkers
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To: toupsie
It depends upon the type of mask. In my first job out of college, I had daily contact with open tanks containing thousands of gallons of solution with a pound or more of cyanide per gallon. It's perfectly safe unless ingested or placed in contact with acids. It has a distinctive almond odor. Most any clinic and certainly all hospitals have sodium thiosulfate on hand for treating cyanide victims.

If you're more than a block away from the site, you're safe unless there was an extraordinary release of cyanide.

21 posted on 05/16/2002 6:52:31 PM PDT by DallasMike
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To: A. Morgan
Good Question! Maybe some New York FReeper could call up a Local Channel to see if they are rushing to cover this.
22 posted on 05/16/2002 6:52:41 PM PDT by cmsgop
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To: cmsgop
Very interesting article for EMTs to prep them for a cyanide attack"
23 posted on 05/16/2002 6:52:59 PM PDT by abner
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To: Eva
I agree...the quarantine for cyanide doesn't make sense. Pinging the wires for more...
24 posted on 05/16/2002 6:53:39 PM PDT by RCW2001
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To: Senator Pardek
I'm hiding under the bed!

I can't tell you how disappointed we are...........

Alfred and I were expecting to hear you shout.........To the Bat Poles!

25 posted on 05/16/2002 6:54:45 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: abner
Thanks!
26 posted on 05/16/2002 6:54:46 PM PDT by cmsgop
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To: abner
Thanks for the link!
27 posted on 05/16/2002 6:55:29 PM PDT by firewalk
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To: dogbyte12
Any new info? Still nothing on the Cable News networks.
28 posted on 05/16/2002 6:55:40 PM PDT by inflorida
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To: dogbyte12
No news outlets are reporting this as yet. News 12 Long Island isn't even reporting it.
29 posted on 05/16/2002 6:55:52 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo
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To: ALL
As to what went down in Mexico, I see no link - these guys would have to be tripping on No-Doz, and Al-Queda is most methodological.
30 posted on 05/16/2002 6:55:56 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: DallasMike
Thanks for the common sense info. Feel much better. I hate the smell of almonds.
31 posted on 05/16/2002 6:56:40 PM PDT by toupsie
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To: inflorida
Mayor John Spencer stated that the situation is under control and that it is not an airborne contaminant.

Any indication of suspected cyanide gas or other poison may have been consumed by residents in a fourth floor apartment at 223 Nepperhan Avenue in Yonkers.

Several blocks in the area remain quarantined.

St. Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers has been closed. The entire community surrounding 223 Nepperhan Avenue and Elm Street has been closed.

Two women are on life support. Stay tuned to News 12 Westchester for continuing live coverage and Chopper 12 footage.

32 posted on 05/16/2002 6:56:43 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12
Reports say several hundred people have been quarantined

This would not be cyanide. It would be more like a communicable disease of some sort, or a bio contaminate. Cyanide disperses. It is only dangerous in a confined area or if ingested.

33 posted on 05/16/2002 6:56:54 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: DallasMike
"... [Cyanide] is perfectly safe unless ingested or placed in contact with acids."

With the prevalence of pool supply stores doing heavy business preparing for summer, copious amounts of hydrochloric acid should be pretty easy to come by without attracting any attention.

34 posted on 05/16/2002 6:56:58 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Cagey
Did you see this?
35 posted on 05/16/2002 6:57:02 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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To: dogbyte12
OMG ... Sending my prayers to these folks
36 posted on 05/16/2002 6:57:13 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: cmsgop
What is wierd is that I was just looking this up before this story broke.
37 posted on 05/16/2002 6:57:20 PM PDT by abner
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To: dogbyte12
You bet this is breaking news, and this may be the only way some FReepers in that area get to find out. I don't think any moderator would be so rash as to deny this information to those who could be most affected by it.

Can anyone tell me if there are a lot of West African immigrants in this neighborhood? I'm thinking Ebola or some sort of hemorrhagic fever.

38 posted on 05/16/2002 6:57:52 PM PDT by Palladin
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To: dogbyte12
There's absolutely no point to quarantine folks because of cyanide exposure. It's not contagious.
39 posted on 05/16/2002 6:58:10 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: TomGuy
The timing is right ---the cyanide stolen in Mexico Sunday would make it to NY easily by now.
40 posted on 05/16/2002 6:58:23 PM PDT by FITZ
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