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
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