11 Feb 2013

School pool chemical accident

12:01 pm on 11 February 2013

A person was taken to hospital after they were overcome while mixing pool chemicals at an Auckland primary school.

Pupils from Hillpark Primary School in Manurewa were briefly evacuated just after 10am on Monday, as a precaution.

The Fire Service said one adult was treated and decontaminated at the school before being taken to hospital.