USA: Chicago’s Rock Bottom Brewery got evacuated

Chicago’s Rock Bottom Brewery was evacuated on the evening of August 24, when the Chicago Fire Department took action to a hazmat situation. According fire officials a restaurant patron sprayed an irritant on the second floor of the micro brewery at 1 W.Grand at 21:15.

The irritant entered the ventilation system and made several people sick. The eyewitness say the victims were choking and at least one vomited. The firemen managed ventilating the edifice.

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