Strong perfume spurs Hazmat response

Published June 18, 2009 4:00am ET



Calgon, take me away — in an ambulance.

D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services were dispatched shortly after 1 p.m. Friday to the corner of New York and Florida avenues Northeast, near Gallaudet University. Several people were complaining of a “foul odor,” said fire department spokesman Alan Etter.

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