San Diego
Employees were evacuated for two hours Wednesday morning from a pharmaceuticals company in Sorrento Valley when a beaker of a cyanide-gas-producing chemical was dropped, officials said.
Thirty people were evacuated at 7:30 a.m. from Quidel, 6455 Nancy Ridge Drive, because of the accident, the San Diego Fire Department reported.
The chemical, cyangen bromide, was spilled in a room designed to handle such accidents, department spokesman Bob Summers said. There were no injuries, and the building was undamaged.
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