{"id":595858,"date":"2026-04-11T00:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:13:15","slug":"8-people-taken-to-hospital-after-chemical-incident-at-victoria-pool-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595858\/","title":{"rendered":"8 people taken to hospital after \u2018chemical incident\u2019 at Victoria pool &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight people were taken to the hospital after a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/chemical-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">chemical incident<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/crystal-pool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crystal Pool<\/a> in Victoria on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A City of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Victoria<\/a> spokesperson told Global News that the pool on Quadra Street and the nearby park were evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word on what caused the incident and the condition of the eight people is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The city lifted the alert just after 3 p.m., saying there is no longer a risk and the alert has been cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Health<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, Crystal Pool and Fitness Centre is now closed over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will reopen on Tuesday, April 14, at 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Summer camp registration has been rescheduled to launch on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight people were taken to the hospital after a chemical incident at Crystal Pool in Victoria on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,226125,226126,84,44,18581],"class_list":["post-595858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chemical-incident","tag-crystal-pool","tag-health","tag-news","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595858","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=595858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}