Four people remained hospitalized Wednesday after a chlorine pump malfunctioned at a Pleasant Grove pool Tuesday.
Swimmers were vomiting and passing out at the Veterans Memorial Pool late Tuesday afternoon when a chlorine pump failed and then turned back on, pumping out large amounts of chlorine and producing toxic fumes, police told FOX 13.
Some of the patients suffered coughing and nosebleeds; some were unconscious, police said.
About 50 people were sickened, Pleasant Grove police said; ambulances took 26 people to area hospitals, according to a statement by Pleasant Grove city officials. A dozen were hospitalized overnight and released Wednesday morning.
Fifteen children and one adult were taken to Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem; three of those children have been admitted in to the pediatric intensive care unit, hospital spokesman Nate Black told The Salt Lake Tribune.
Investigators expected all of the affected swimmers to survive, but they may experience “upper respiratory irritation," Pleasant Grove police Captain Britt Smith said.
The Tribune will report further details as they become available.
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