Seven people rushed to hospital after chemical incident involving fish tank sees homes evacuated

Emergency crews including a hazardous response team rushed out to a residential street on Saturday night. Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter We have more newsletters Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter We have more newsletters Seven people are in hospital struggling to breathe after a "chemical incident" sparked by a coral toxin released from a fish tank. Emergency crews including a hazardous response team rushed out to the site of a suspected chemical leak on Wren Road in Dagenham, east London.

Multiple residents had reported breathing difficulties, after the suspected leak from an address in the street. The London Ambulance Service said it sent a "number of resources" to the neighbourhood after the terrified residents' panicked calls. A spokesperson for the service told The Sun: “We were called at 9.

46pm on 10 August to reports of an incident at a residential address on Wren Road. We sent a number of resources including ambulance crews, an incident response officer and members of our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART)." "We responded alongside colleagues from London Fire Brigade.

We treated seven patients and took them all to hospital.” Authorities have locked down the street and cordoned off 10 homes on the street. Hazard response teams eventually concluded that the source of the residents' issues was a deadly.