Manhattan, NY – A spill of about 10 gallons of cleaning fluids inside a Times Square skyscraper prompted a large response from New York City’s fire department.
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Traffic was briefly detoured on 7th Avenue Sunday night while part of a city block was taken up by hazardous materials crews and fire trucks.
A fire department spokesman says the mishap involved hydrogen peroxide spilled by cleaners on a building’s 53rd floor.
The square remained open to tourists throughout the cleanup effort.
whats the problem?
#1 :
Industrial strength hydrogen peroxide is very irritating to the eyes and respiratory system. A spill of that size requires a “haz mat” response to clean-up the spill and decontaminate the exposed workers.
Contrast this extreme hypersensitivity to contamination with the obvious and willful denial of the gross contamination caused by the attack on WTC. The air in lower Manhattan and even in all the boroughs was for months polluted with a wide variety of deadly carcinogens and other elements, and the approach of the city, state, and federal government was business as usual. Their concern was to not impede business, at the cost of many thousands of NY’ers lives,but if they had shown even one percent of the sensitivity shown these poor 10 gallons, there would have been a massive attempt to clean breathed air by shipping in air cleaners and requiring their use.
And those 9/11 workers? For hashem’s sake, even my 9 year old son at the time asked why those people weren’t wearing strong filters.