MSW: Rotting fruit and vegies make 16 sick and cause alert

AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2006
MSW: Rotting fruit and vegies make 16 sick and cause alert

Carbon monoxide gas .. from rotting fruit and vegetables .. has put 16 Sydney people in hospital.

They were among 50 people evacuated from a Marrickville fruit and veg barn .. when
they were overcome by what authorities first believed was a gas leak.

The people were taken to hospital with headaches and nausea .. and firefighters spent
hours trying to locate the source of the leak .. calling finally in the Hazardous Materials
Unit.

Four hours later .. the source of the leak was still a mystery.

The fire brigade says it finally became clear and was tracked to rotting produce ..

which had begun to ferment .. producing carbon monoxide.

AAP RTV tr/was/goc/

KEYWORD: FRUIT (SYDNEY)

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