{"id":467381,"date":"2010-03-24T12:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a9705e06970b"},"modified":"2010-03-24T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:35:45","slug":"l-a-county-emergency-crews-respond-to-simulated-toxic-spill-in-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/467381","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County emergency crews respond to simulated toxic spill in Carson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews responded Wednesday morning to a simulated toxic spill in Carson as part of a training exercise for first-responders. <\/p>\n<p>The training exercise began at 9 a.m. when officials called 911 with news of an overturned truck leaking chlorine gas on the eastbound 91 Freeway, according to inspector Frederic Stowers of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the hypothetical emergency, fire crews, public health officials and volunteers from the American Red Cross set up a command post at the Home Depot Center sports complex at 18400 Avalon Blvd., where they planned to organize an evacuation of neighborhoods downwind from the hypothetical spill.<\/p>\n<p>Stowers said they will not actually evacuate the neighborhoods. But otherwise, he said,\u00a0the simulation is &quot;going to be as close to real-life as we can make it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Linthicum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews responded Wednesday morning to a simulated toxic spill in Carson as part of a training exercise for first-responders. The training exercise began at 9 a.m. when officials called 911 with news of an overturned truck leaking chlorine gas on the eastbound 91 Freeway, according to inspector Frederic Stowers of the Los Angeles County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}