Residents of the Historical Park Apartments were evacuated Thursday afternoon after they started feeling an itchy, burning sensation in their throat and eyes, Utica fire officials said.
Firefighters, police and ambulance crews responded at 2:08 p.m. to the 11-story building at 100 Rutger St., located just east of downtown Utica.
As of 3:30 p.m. Thursday, city fire Chief Scott Ingersoll said one person was sent to a local hospital and emergency crews still were trying to find the source of the irritant.
On Friday morning, Ingersoll said no source of irritant had been found after the building was checked multiple times with different meters.
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UTICA, N.Y. (NBCNC) A man and his dog had to be rescued when a severe storm caused a tree to crash into their home in Utica.
The tree crushed the house and trapped a man in a wheelchair right inside the front door.
Utica firefighters were able to rescue the man from underneath the collapsed home. We re all trying to yank and just keep talking to him cause he s literally just bent over in his wheelchair with his face to his lap and had the house on him, said neighbor Rebecca Price.
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