Five children and one teacher have been taken to hospital after a corrosive chemical was mistaken for detergent and put on a waterslide at a childcare facility in Christchurch this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Emergency services responded to the incident at the Kindercare Learning Centre on Ferry Rd in the suburb of Woolston at around 1.13pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
FENZ Woolston senior station manager John Herriott said teachers had put on a waterslide for a “bit of fun for the kids”.<\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, some detergent has been misidentified and a corrosive product has caused irritation to the skin.”<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said it responded with 18 emergency vehicles, including nine ambulances, three rapid response units, five operations managers and one major incident support vehicle.<\/p>\n
14 patients were treated, and six people had been taken to hospital, said St John hazardous area response national operations manager Chris Harrison.<\/p>\n
Roads have been closed surrounding the Kindercare Learning Centre on Ferry Rd in the suburb of Woolston. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
The fire service also provided an incident support vehicle. <\/p>\n
Police said they were assisting emergency services.<\/p>\n
A grandparent picking up their grandson from the centre told 1News his first instinct was to rush over after hearing about the emergency.<\/p>\n
“I was just concerned about him and I said to my son that I would come and grab him. I only live across the road and have just finished work.”<\/p>\n
Mother Nikita Wagstaff said her daughter suffered a small burn to her hand during the incident.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s only little, and that could be considered a blister,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five children and one teacher have been taken to hospital after a corrosive chemical was mistaken for detergent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-168737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}