Several Quarantined in Yonkers

News 12 ^ | 5-16-02

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/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.

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[Dr. Eckleburg]

Gulp...

[Bogey78O]

Perhaps a mask rated for chemical and organic agents may be effective.

[cmsgop]

Bump!

[let freedom sing]

Careful, you'll panic the natives.

[BossLady]

Sounds like one heck of a party!

Cyanide also used in mining...PS and by the way....

[toupsie]

Just watched that! I am forced to watch to "Diversity Thursday" on NBC by my fiance every week. Unwed mothers, gay sperm donors, smallpox infections, oh my!

[TomGuy]

May be no relation at all, but also in the NE US, posted this morning:

[Lyndonville, VT] Residents Warned Not To Use Water: Contaminated

Lock at water system was tampered with. Unknown if any "problem" but alert is precautionary.

[piasa]

That does sound more appropriate, that's for sure.

[ChadGore]

6 people brought St. Joseph's Medical Center

[let freedom sing]

Jim Jones used cyanide and kool-aid for his going-away party.

[FITZ]

There are 9 tons of cyanide missing ---I wonder how much damage that amount could do?

[piasa]

Could be two women had made a suicide pact and swallowed some rat poison, and just aren't able to communicate.

[BossLady]

Grape wasn't it??? Sad, indeed!

[Siouxz]

Did the mayor have his press conference yet?

[RnMomof7]

Yea big help you would have been when that guy rode through the town yelling "The British are coming"....boy am I disappointed in you

[piasa]

oops, guess not... never heard of a six-person suicide pact except if it involves grape Kool-aid.