Building evacuated after report of suspicous package
Greenwich Time, CT
A special operations vehicle, bomb squad truck, four GEMS ambulances and two fire trucks assembled at the scene just south of the central Greenwich train station. Several emergency personnel donned HAZMAT suits.
According to police, the incident began when a packaged opened up in the building's mailroom and a "suspicious" substance covered a mailroom worker.
That worker and two others in the mailroom at the time were being decontaminated early Wednesday afternoon, but had showed no ill effects from exposure to the unknown substance.
Officials said they were sending samples of the substance to the state Department of Health in Hartford to determine what it was.
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Greenwich Post
Breaking News Posted 12:36 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 13
Greenwich Plaza was evacuated this morning after what police are terming as a “suspicious package” was discovered.
A response by the fire department is ongoing and more details are not known at this time.
Police Public Information Officer Lt. Daniel Allen said that three people were transported to Greenwich Hospital for precautionary reasons, but they weren’t displaying any symptoms of toxic exposure.
The original call about the package was received at 9:49 and the people were taken to the hospital shortly after noon.
Greenwichpost.com will have more details as they become available.
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