FIRST RESPONDERS INVESTIGATING HAZMAT RESPONSE CALL

First responders are investigating a HAZMAT response call that happened late Monday morning in East Mahoning Township.

Indiana County 911 dispatched Marion Center and Plumville firefighters, the HAZMAT team and Citizens’ Ambulance to the L&S Machine Company at 50 Gahagan Road, northwest of Marion Center, shortly after 11 AM. People at the plant initially said they smelled chlorine in the back room and some walked out of the building coughing and reporting burning sensations in their throats.

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