{"id":184648,"date":"2025-12-15T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184648\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:20:08","slug":"acg-parnell-college-chemical-spill-fire-crews-contain-nasty-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184648\/","title":{"rendered":"ACG Parnell College chemical spill: Fire crews contain \u2018nasty\u2019 substance"},"content":{"rendered":"
A spokesperson said crews were still working to make the area safe.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency Assistant Commander Dave Woon said the type of chemical was \u201cparticularly nasty\u201d.<\/p>\n
The spill happened in a science lab. Photo \/ Kim Baker Wilson, RNZ<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a patient that\u2019s had some spilt on her, she\u2019s been taken off to hospital by ambulance, and we\u2019ve been in contact with our Queensland colleagues to get an understanding of the best way of moving forward and neutralising the product,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Woon said the chemical reacts violently with water.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does have phosphorous content to it, and it does react violently with water, so we do have an issue where it\u2019s spilt on skin and has been inhaled.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said they were taking careful, calculated steps to collect and dispose of the chemical.<\/p>\n
ACG Parnell College principal Damian Watson said the incident occurred while a laboratory technician was clearing chemical stocks.<\/p>\n
He said the school immediately activated its health and safety protocols and alerted emergency services.<\/p>\n
\u201cFENZ contained the spill, secured the campus and confirmed it is safe. FENZ is no longer on site.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn ambulance also attended, and the laboratory technician involved was taken to Auckland Hospital for precautionary assessment. They are expected to be discharged later today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to thank FENZ staff for the careful and systematic way they resolved this incident. We are fortunate to have such highly trained professionals to call on when situations like this arise.\u201d<\/p>\n
An ambulance outside the college. Photo \/ Kim Baker Wilson, RNZ<\/p>\n
A reporter at the scene said a decontamination shower had been set up outside the school on Parnell\u2019s Titoki St and five fire trucks were at the scene along with three specialist trucks.<\/p>\n
An ambulance was also present.<\/p>\n
Yellow tape which said \u201chot zone\u201d had been put on the front steps to the college.<\/p>\n
Firefighters by the entrance. Photo \/ Kim Baker Wilson, RNZ<\/p>\n
– RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson said crews were still working to make the area safe. Fire and Emergency Assistant Commander Dave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[116683,52056,27129,31515,12784,55141,23364,38268,2079,79819,111,43,139,69,43239,48216,66989,6038],"class_list":["post-184648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-acg","tag-baker","tag-blackwell","tag-chemical","tag-college","tag-contain","tag-crews","tag-finn","tag-fire","tag-nasty","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parnell","tag-spill","tag-substance","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184648","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=184648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}