Chemical incident at Harwich Port
Four people were treated by the ambulance service after packages in a container lorry at Harwich International Port were found to be leaking.
Two crews, an incident support manager, and a clinical operations manager were sent to the scene at about 9.30pm and assessed three HM Customs officials and the German lorry driver for possible fume inhilation.
Clinical ops manager John Nicholls said: "En-route to the scene, I put the CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear) team on standby in case this was a big incident, but thankfully they were not needed.
"The fire service were also on scene to make the area safe. We treated all four patients with oxygen therapy, checked their ECGs, and once we established they were okay and their saturation levels had gone back to normal, we released them and no-one required hospital treatment."
