UPDATE: Chemical Spill at Stevens Successfully Contained

Only a few students felt effects of the chemical spill at a Stevens Institute of Technology building yesterday afternoon, according to a police report about the incident. 

Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps Captain Scott Whalen said yesterday that all students refused medical treatment. Nobody was transported to the hospital because of the incident. 

A Stevens police captain told Hoboken police that there were students in the laboratory cleaning up and placing chemical cylinders in a large container when they found out about the spill, according to the police report.  

The building, Burchard Hall at 534 River Terrace, was evacuated a little before 4 p.m. yesterday. 

Stevens' Chief Chemist was on scene to investigate which chemicals were in the laboratory and see what the consequences would be if mixed, according to the police. Before sending the Hoboken Fire Department's hazmat team into the building, the chemist found out how dangerous the scene was, police said. 

Members of the Hoboken Fire Department's hazmat team then went into the building and successfully contained the spill. They placed the chemicals in a hazmat plastic container, according to the police. After the first two guys came out of the builing—you can't be in there for more than 15 minutes, because the oxygen runs out and it gets too hot in the taped up suits—a second team went in to take air samples, according to the police report.

Private company Environmental Enterprises Inc. picked up the chemicals, according to the police report. Police said the chemicals are now stored in paper containers at the garage at Stevens, until Environmental Enterprises can retrieve the chemicals and properly dispose of them.