FUMY ICELAND RINK EVACUATED.Byline: Daily News VAN NUYS - An ice skating ice skating, gliding along an ice surface on keellike runners known as ice skates. Skating as a Sport Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice) has developed rink was evacuated and two young ice skaters were taken to a hospital as a precaution after people became nauseated nau·se·at·ed adj. Affected with nausea. from elevated levels of carbon monoxide carbon monoxide, chemical compound, CO, a colorless, odorless, tasteless, extremely poisonous gas that is less dense than air under ordinary conditions. It is very slightly soluble in water and burns in air with a characteristic blue flame, producing carbon dioxide; , fire officials said. The carbon monoxide apparently was produced by the engine of the Zamboni machine used to smooth the ice at the Iceland rink in the 14300 block of Calvert Street, fire officials said. ``It filled the skating rink with carbon monoxide,'' Los Angeles Fire Department The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), also known as the Los Angeles City Fire Department to distinguish it from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. It is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the city of Los Angeles. spokesman Jim Wells said. ``There were about 35 people in there. They all self-evacuated prior to our arrival.'' Fire officials set up a triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. area on the sidewalk across the street from the rink to evaluate more than 20 people, more than half of them young skaters in leotards. Two girls, believed to be 10 and 13, were taken to a hospital as a precaution, firefighters at the scene said. Both were described as in good condition. The other children and adults recovered by breathing fresh air outside the rink. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Some of the more than 20 people evacuated from the Iceland rink Saturday rest in a triage area set up outside by firefighters. Mike Meadows/Special to Daily News |
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