Several Quarantined in Yonkers

News 12 ^ | 5-16-02

[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.

[DallasMike]

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.

[cmsgop]

Good Question! Maybe some New York FReeper could call up a Local Channel to see if they are rushing to cover this.

[abner]

Very interesting article for EMTs to prep them for a cyanide attack"

[RCW2001]

I agree...the quarantine for cyanide doesn't make sense. Pinging the wires for more...

[hole_n_one]

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!

[cmsgop]

Thanks!

[firewalk]

Thanks for the link!

[inflorida]

Any new info? Still nothing on the Cable News networks.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

No news outlets are reporting this as yet. News 12 Long Island isn't even reporting it.

[Senator Pardek]

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.

[toupsie]

Thanks for the common sense info. Feel much better. I hate the smell of almonds.

[dogbyte12]

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.

[Cold Heat]

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.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... [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.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Did you see this?

[Mo1]

OMG ... Sending my prayers to these folks

[abner]

What is wierd is that I was just looking this up before this story broke.

[Palladin]

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.

[spunkets]

There's absolutely no point to quarantine folks because of cyanide exposure. It's not contagious.

[FITZ]

The timing is right ---the cyanide stolen in Mexico Sunday would make it to NY easily by now.