{"id":213943,"date":"2026-03-11T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213943\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:16:09","slug":"disneyland-investigates-backstage-odor-that-left-five-employees-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213943\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland investigates backstage odor that left five employees hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. (TNND) \u2014 Five Disneyland employees were hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon after an odor located in a backstage area in the park caused them to become short of breath and dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>The Anaheim fire officials responded to the park at 12:30 p.m. after a report of an unknown smell. The odor came from the Tomorrowland section of the park, according to the Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Matt Sutter.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, four employees were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, which Disneyland officials updated to five hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>Several other employees were also treated by paramedics in the park.<\/p>\n<p>According to Disneyland officials, building materials that were used by a contractor in the backstage area created a reaction that led to the spread of the odor.<\/p>\n<p>Guests were cleared from the surrounding area on Tuesday afternoon as a precaution. No park guests were affected by the odor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (TNND) \u2014 Five Disneyland employees were hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon after an odor located in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,98154,1553,1341,45940,24896,98153,98155],"class_list":{"0":"post-213943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-backstage","12":"tag-contractor","13":"tag-disneyland","14":"tag-employees","15":"tag-hospitalized","16":"tag-odor","17":"tag-tomorrowland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}