Substance test finds no hazard after Valley prison staffers treated
Multiple people were treated after being exposed to a powder at a Valley prison, authorities said, but the substance tested as non-hazardous.
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Multiple people were treated after being exposed to a powder at a Valley prison, authorities said, but the substance tested as non-hazardous.
Goodyear Fire Department says multiple staff members at Perryville prison were treated and hospitalized after being exposed to an "unknown substance."
Families are concerned that the heat in the cells could be deadly as the department deals with broken swamp coolers and air conditioners.
A Goodyear woman died at the scene while another man, who was visiting from Michigan, died at the hospital. Nineteen people were injured and 11 of them were taken to three different hospitals in the Valley, with at least one of them in life-threatening condition.
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