{"id":348204,"date":"2026-09-16T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348204\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:56:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-mercury-spill-prompts-evacuation-at-floral-park-pediatricians-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348204\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Mercury Spill Prompts Evacuation At Floral Park Pediatricians Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A hazmat incident caused a doctor\u2019s office to be evacuated in Nassau County Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Floral Park Fire Department received the 911 call around 3 p.m. reporting a spill of mercury in a pediatrician\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Once on scene, Floral Park Fire Chief Eric O\u2019Connor requested the Nassau County Fire Marshal HazMat Division to respond and assist. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators determined that an employee dropped a blood pressure machine down the stairs, which broke open and released mercury onto the staircase.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Staff members at the Allied Physicians office on Jericho Turnpike were evacuated while the hazmat team worked to confine the spilled product and provided appropriate public protective actions. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Due to the nature of the business involved, office personnel were advised to hire an environmental cleanup contractor to remediate the situation to the appropriate EPA guidelines, fire officials say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Members of the fire marshal\u2019s hazmat unit remained on scene until the contractor arrived to take over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hazmat incident caused a doctor\u2019s office to be evacuated in Nassau County Tuesday afternoon. The Floral Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-348204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}