Hazmat team responds after body found in home
This article was originally published March 25, 2010 at 1:56 p.m. Updated March 25, 2010 at 3:08 p.m.
PHOTO BY GAVIN LESNICK
Members of the North Little Rock Fire Department hazardous materials team enter a home where a body and a bucket of unknown chemicals were found Thursday.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK — The North Little Rock Fire Department hazardous materials team removed unknown chemicals from a home where a body was discovered this afternoon, authorities said.
Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said officials believe the resident - whose name has not been released - mixed the chemicals together and then inhaled them in an apparent suicide. A note left at the house in the 700 block of Orange Street advised authorities to call in the hazmat team.
North Little Rock Fire Department spokesman Lt. Mark Shoemaker said the property manager went inside earlier today after learning the resident had not been seen in some time.
The manager reportedly discovered the body as well as a note that "alluded to the fact that the hazmat team was needed," Shoemaker said.
The team then went in and found a bucket of unknown chemicals.
Police blocked off Orange Street to pedestrian and vehicle traffic and set up a taped perimeter around the house. Officials did not evacuate any nearby homes, however.
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