UPDATE: Refrigeration Leak Detected at Mooseheart, Hazmat Advisory Team Sent Back
About 100 adults were evacuated Friday after initial reports of a possible Freon leak at Mooseheart.
About 100 adults were evacuated from a Mooseheart administrative building by 4:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, following a report of a possible Freon leak, Mooseheart officials said. The evacuation was from the Moose International headquarters building, the easternmost building on the campus of Mooseheart Child City & School. Officials at 5:30 p.m. actually discovered a minor refrigeration leak, a Tri-Com command report said. Batavia Battalion Chief Ed Jancauskas confirmed the minor leak and said that a mechanical engineer was at the scene late Friday afternoon looking at the building's system. "There was ... nothing obvious that was leaking," Jancauskas said. "It could have just been something small that set the alarm off." There was also no …
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3:50 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012
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