COLUMBIA, S.C. — Authorities have given the all-clear following a reported freon leak in a building at Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia.
According to a spokesperson for Columbia-Richland Fire, crews responded to 3 Medical Park around 4 p.m. to reports of a possible freon leak in a mechanical room on the third floor of a building at the address, which is located on the Prisma Health Richland Hospital campus.
Crews evacuated the floor, and roughly 15 people were taken to the emergency room as a precaution to be checked out. After testing the air in the building, fire crews said the leak had been mitigated, and people were safe to return to the floor.