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New Danville firefighters thought they were being sent to handle a house fire in Pequea Township on Sunday, only to discover the home was actually flooded with poison gas, according to a report by WGAL.
The incident was unlike anything Tim Kuntz, a New Danville firefighter with 41 years of experience, had ever seen, he told WGAL. It kind of looked like a Hollywood movie because steps, steps, disappeared into nothing, Kuntz said.
The gas was emanating from a reaction involving pool chemicals in the basement of a home in the 2000 block of New Danville Pike.
Firefighters were initially dispatched to the residence for what was originally reported as a structure fire, only to realize that what appeared to be smoke was actually a chemical cloud, the New Danville Fire Company said in a Facebook post.
Firefighters said a reaction involving pool chemicals caused a dangerous situation this weekend at a Lancaster County home.In 41 years of firefighting, Tim Kuntz said he has never seen anything like the chemical gas he encountered at Sunday s emergency call on New Danville Pike. It kind of looked like a Hollywood movie because steps, steps, disappeared into nothing, said Kuntz, who is with the New Danville Fire Company.The basement of Carmen Diaz s home was full of what looked like smoke but smelled like pool chemicals. It s poison chlorine gas. It s just like they used in World War I, and so this was bad stuff, Kuntz said.The fire company called in the county hazmat team to help, and department photographer Don Shenk caught it all on camera. They looked like astronauts, Diaz said.The family had taken its pool down because of a leak three weeks earlier.Leftover chlorine tabs, algaecide and pool cleaner mixed in a bucket and caused the reaction. They were, Oh, did you know if