{"id":51504,"date":"2026-07-02T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/51504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:19:12","slug":"medical-unit-sent-to-nippon-in-longview-staff-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/51504\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical unit sent to Nippon in Longview; staff evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All personnel\u00a0were accounted for and evacuated as a result, a responder said on the scanner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Washington State Department of Ecology spokesperson Anna Izenman called the Wednesday morning incident a &#8220;chemical spill,&#8221; though local officials later determined that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Izenman said the Wednesday incident was unrelated to the May 26 failed white liquor tank and any other operation with that spill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no risk to the public,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about 8:15 a.m., a responder said on the scanner that &#8220;the incident is contained to a 300-foot radius at the site.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no further spread of the incident,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cowlitz 2 reports this containment area was created out of precaution while crews searched for a possible spill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The department reports officials will not release more information about the patient to protect his privacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The chemicals<\/p>\n<p>The white liquor that spilled in May was comprised of <a title=\"Officials say no more rescues expected though 9 missing after Nippon chemical spill\" href=\"https:\/\/tdn.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/1e4c1ff1-b7d5-46f7-8f1b-3fc5fa57bbcf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide and sodium carbonate<\/a>, and converts wood into pulp through the kraft process.<\/p>\n<p>Officials report that tank could hold up to 900,000 gallons, and was roughly two-thirds full at the time it failed at about 7:18 a.m. May 26.<\/p>\n<p>All of the 11 workers killed, died as <a title=\"Authorities confirm chemical burns killed 11 at Longview&#039;s Nippon\" href=\"https:\/\/tdn.com\/tncms\/asset\/editorial\/ab2e7991-dedf-4914-a52e-bd36942f1542\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a result of burns from the chemical<\/a>s.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All personnel\u00a0were accounted for and evacuated as a result, a responder said on the scanner.\u00a0 Earlier, Washington State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34719,34721,34715,2072,34722,34723,34725,8,17568,34717,31,23235,34724,7544,23234,23233,34714,13637,7961,34716,34720,34718,22970],"class_list":["post-51504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-armoured-fighting-vehicles","tag-armoured-vehicles","tag-armoured-warfare","tag-arrest","tag-chemical-accident","tag-concepts-in-chemistry","tag-first-responder","tag-japan","tag-liquor","tag-military-vehicles","tag-nippon","tag-paper","tag-patient","tag-police","tag-pulp-paper","tag-pulp-and-paper-industry","tag-sulfuric-acid","tag-suspect","tag-tank","tag-tanks","tag-tracked-military-vehicles","tag-vehicle-armour","tag-white-liquor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}