Crime & Safety
'Noxious Substance' In Windsor Home Hospitalizes 4 Officers
When the officers arrived at a Plymouth Street home, they were overcome by a substance that made it hard for them to breathe, police said.
WINDSOR, CT — Four Windsor police officers were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after they were exposed to an unidentified noxious substance at a Windsor home, police said.
The officers were dispatched to a home on Plymouth Street at 11:01 a.m. Thursday for a welfare check. When they entered the home, they were immediately overcome by "some type of noxious substance," police said in a news release.
Several officers had difficulty breathing and reported pain in their throat area, and Windsor Volunteer Ambulance personnel took four of them to a local hospital.
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Another Windsor officer and members of the Windsor Volunteer Fire Department entered the home wearing self-contained breathing apparatuses, and they found a person who needed medical care.
That individual was taken to the hospital for treatment, police said.
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Police said the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection responded to the scene, though officials have not yet identified the substance that caused the officers to be hospitalized.
The scene has been cleared and neighborhood residents can return to their homes, police said.
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