Thursday, February 28, 2013
The Johns Hopkins at Keswick north and south buildings will be open on Thursday.
The cause of the illness in the south building at Johns Hopkins at Keswick facility is nitrates in a hot water heater, and both buildings will be open for business, according to a message on the complex’s website. A hot water heater was reportedly harboring the nitrates that made it into the south building’s hot water service. "First of all, nitrates and nitrites can cause the types of symptoms that employees reported. Second, the north side of the south building, where running water with those chemicals was found, is served by that hot water heater. Third, that is also the side of the building where sickened employees have reported coming into contact with water in various ways: eating food cooked with hot water, drinking beverages …
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The Baltimore City Health Department is looking for the cause of the breathing trouble that prompted Tuesday's evacuation.
(UPDATE 2:24 p.m.)—Both the north and south buildings of the Johns Hopkins at Keswick complex are closed after an outbreak of breathing difficulties prompted an evacuation on Tuesday. A notice announcing the closure was posted on the facility’s website that explains that authorities are still looking into the cause of the "illness." The website also instructs all staff who reported being ill to report to Occupational Health or Occupational Injury and complete an incident report before returning to work. The Baltimore City Health Department along with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Johns Hopkins University will investigate the cause of the incident, according to an email from Tiffany Thomas Smith, a spokeswoman …
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Here are some guidelines for keeping safe in case the hurricane affects the D.C./Baltimore area, including advice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Baltimore County Office of Emergency Management in Towson.
The rain we're experiencing today has nothing to do with Hurricane Irene, a category three hurricane, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Ocean City, MD, officials have ordered an emergency evacuation by midnight of the resort town. Gov. Martin O'Malley declared a state of emergency. Irene could hit the Baltimore area as a tropical storm on Sunday. To find out where Irene is now, and get details about the storm, visit the National Weather Service's National Hurricane Center. As of 8 a.m. today, Irene's probable path could touch the southern tip of the Virginia coast, as well as Maryland's Eastern Shore, on Sunday as a hurricane, according to the website. At 2 p.m., that storm is expected to hit in and near Maryland at …
