KUALA LUMPUR: The Fire and Rescue Department’s hazardous material (Hazmat) team was deployed to a house in Jalan Dutamas to contain mercury exposure, after a thermometer in the house broke, last night.
City Fire and Rescue Department operation chief Samsol Maarif Saibani said the department were alerted to the emergency at 8.43pm. They despatched 11 firemen to the scene.
“A thermometer fell on the floor and shattered, exposing the house’s occupants to mercury," he said in a statement.
The team contained the exposure and successfully decontaminated the house.