{"id":216082,"date":"2026-03-12T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:35:12","slug":"hazmat-response-at-disneyland-tomorrowland-sends-staff-to-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216082\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazmat response at Disneyland Tomorrowland sends staff to hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ANAHEIM,<\/p>\n

Workers reported a strong odor backstage near the Star Tours attraction in Tomorrowland at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday,<\/p>\n

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A hazardous materials incident at Disneyland sent seven employees of the Anaheim, California, theme park to hospitals, police said.<\/p>\n

Workers reported a strong odor backstage near the Star Tours attraction in Tomorrowland at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Anaheim police told The Sacramento Bee.<\/p>\n

Seven were taken to hospitals to be treated, police said. No visitors were affected.<\/p>\n

Workers reported \u201creported minor pain, shortness of breath<\/a> and dizziness,\u201d police told KCBS.<\/p>\n

Disneyland officials blamed building materials<\/a> being used by a contractor nearby, KNBC said.<\/p>\n

The affected backstage areas were closed as a precaution<\/a>, the Los Angeles Times said.<\/p>\n

Star Tours is a Star Wars-themes motion simulator ride.<\/p>\n

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Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers reported a strong odor backstage near the Star Tours attraction in Tomorrowland at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,87780,98965,98518,98963,98964],"class_list":["post-216082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-theme-park","tag-backstage-odor","tag-disneyland-hazmat-incident","tag-tomorrowland-star-tours","tag-workers-hospitalized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216082","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=216082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}