{"id":250680,"date":"2026-04-29T05:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250680\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:13:27","slug":"firefighters-respond-to-chemical-leak-at-port-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250680\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters respond to chemical leak at Port Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9749.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue member is scrubbed down with a brush and water after being exposed to anhydrous ammonia at a Port Everglades cold-storage facility Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026.\" alt=\"A Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue member is scrubbed down with a brush and water after being exposed to anhydrous ammonia at a Port Everglades cold-storage facility Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue member is scrubbed down with a brush and water after being exposed to anhydrous ammonia at a Port Everglades cold-storage facility Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>One person was hospitalized and roads were closed for most of the day after a chemical leak at a Port Everglades cold-storage facility Tuesday morning, Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Fire Rescue said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at a facility at 3205 Southeast 19th St. around 9:45 a.m., according to BSO. Firefighters didn\u2019t clear the scene until around 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Battalion Chief Michael Kane, a Fire Rescue spokesman, said a preliminary investigation indicates a failure in a transmission pipe supplying refrigeration caused a leak of anhydrous ammonia. Paramedics took one person to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>That person is reported to be in stable condition, Kane said.<\/p>\n<p>Several roadways in the immediate area were temporarily closed, but no evacuations were ordered, Kane said.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9748.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"1015\" title=\"IMG_9748.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue members are washed down after being exposed to anhydrous ammonia at a Port Everglades cold-storage facility Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026.\"\/>                                                                                    Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue members are washed down after being exposed to anhydrous ammonia at a Port Everglades cold-storage facility Tuesday morning, April 28, 2026.                                                                                                                                                                        Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p>There is no threat to the surrounding community, Kane said. Hazardous materials teams secured the leak late in the afternoon, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The operation also included personnel from Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue. That department released photographs of firefighters being scrubbed down to clean chemicals off their gear.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the leak remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published April 28, 2026 at 10:44 AM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David Goodhue\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue member is scrubbed down with a brush and water after being exposed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-250680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}