{"id":40419,"date":"2025-10-22T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/chemical-spill-at-superspar-in-the-newlands-area-of-pretoria-east\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:07:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:07:24","slug":"chemical-spill-at-superspar-in-the-newlands-area-of-pretoria-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/chemical-spill-at-superspar-in-the-newlands-area-of-pretoria-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical spill at Superspar in the Newlands area of Pretoria East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 11:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for multiple patients that collapsed at Superspar in Newlands area of Pretoria east following a spill of insecticide containing Organophosphate toxins. On arrival our team found 7 patients in the parking area complaining about difficulty breathing and a burning feeling in their throat. Our team assisted the patients while also assisting the evacuation of the shop. City of Tshwane Firefighters were called to assist with the chemical spill. 7 patients were transported to nearby hospitals by various private ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to ER24, Emer-G-Med, Promed, FADT SecureFire, City of Tshwane Emergency Services and CSI security for assisting on the scene. <\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit (VEMRU) is a registered NPC and PBO that responds to medical and trauma emergencies for FREE.<\/p>\n<p>VEMRU is solely reliant on sponsors and donations for operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider supporting this life&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=74975&#038;page=chemical-spill-at-superspar-in-the-newlands-area-of-pretoria-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just after 11:00 the Volunteer Emergency Medical Response Unit received a call for multiple patients that collapsed at Superspar in Newlands area of Pretoria east following a spill of insecticide containing Organophosphate toxins. On arrival our team found 7 patients in the parking area complaining about difficulty breathing and a burning feeling in their throat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/567681717_1113616114279164_2016638895440337579_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/567681717_1113616114279164_2016638895440337579_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}