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Eleven children were taken to hospital Sunday morning after becoming ill at the pool at the Canmore Inn and Suites, according to Emergency Health Services.<\/p>\n
The Town of Canmore said Canmore Fire-Rescue received a hazmat call at 10:44 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When crews arrived, they found about 30 children in the pool area showing symptoms of illness, including vomiting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Firefighters suspected chemical exposure and cleared the pool area. <\/p>\n
Fire crews tested the air and found elevated levels of a hazardous substance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Based on the location and the symptoms, the town said crews suspected chlorine was the cause.<\/p>\n
EHS said nine children were assessed at the scene and taken to Canmore General Hospital by their parents, while one child was transported there by ambulance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In total, 11 children were assessed at the hospital. Ten were in stable, non-life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n
One child was later transferred to the Alberta Children\u2019s Hospital in Calgary in serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n
In a social media post Monday evening, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said, “My heart goes out to the children who became seriously ill at a Canmore hotel pool and to their families, who must be incredibly worried right now. I am thinking of them and hoping for their full recovery.”<\/p>\n
The town said fire crews traced the problem to the pool and a mechanical room, cordoned off the area, and ventilated the space to clear the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Air testing showed the hotel was safe before crews left, according to the town.<\/p>\n
The town also said the hotel called in an independent contractor, who found no immediate danger after ventilation of the pool area.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the hotel said it takes this matter “extremely seriously.”<\/p>\n
Hotel staff contacted emergency services and Alberta Health as soon as the incident became known Sunday, the hotel said, and it is fully co-operating with authorities on the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand how upsetting this situation has been and are committed to providing our full support to those impacted,\u201d the hotel said. <\/p>\n
It also said the licensed chemical management company that operates the pool is reviewing what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-436054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}