Crushed container but no radioactive leak at O’Hare
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE
A reported hazardous materials situation Wednesday morning at a building in the O’Hare Airport complex on the Northwest Side turned out to be a false alarm.
Crews were initially called to a cargo area near 10000 W. O’Hare about 7 a.m. for a Level II HazMat situation, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Rich Rosado said.
A container at that location was originally reported to be leaking something “radioactive,” fire officials said.
Investigators found a container had been crushed in the cargo area and a HazMat team determined the substance coming from it was not hazardous or dangerous, Rosado said. The material was not radioactive, he said.
The hazardous materials situation response was not in a terminal or in the airport itself, according to Rosado.
Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis said no one has been injured.
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