Local News in Brief : Jewelry Chemicals Leak
Firefighters evacuated a downtown building in the heart of the jewelry district Thursday after a spill of hydrogen peroxide and sodium cyanide, chemicals used in jewelry making.
The chemicals leaked from a recovery piping system on the sixth floor of the California Jewelry Mart at 607 S. Hill St., spilling about two gallons onto a section of the fifth floor, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Jim Wells said.
Firefighters evacuated 125 people from the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh floors of the nine-story building shortly after 3 p.m. A firefighter and two employees on the fifth floor, a man and a woman, were taken to Queen of Angels Medical Center after complaining of dizziness, nausea and headaches, Wells said.
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