Three Spokane Valley Fire Fighters were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after being exposed to chemicals from bug bombs.
The firefighters were responding to a fire alarm around 1 p.m. at Central Park Condominiums near South Eastern Road and East Sixth Avenue. When firefighters arrived, they saw no fire or smoke, but saw an overturned wheelchair and crawled through a window to find if someone was in the apartment, said Greg Rodgers, spokesman for the Spokane Valley Fire Department.
Once inside, they smelled an odor and left to put on air packs, he said. They went back in and found no one. When they went outside again, they started feeling nauseous, so the incident commander upgraded the call to a hazmat call and the three firefighters were taken to a local hospital.