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Cops Hospitalized After Exposure To Unknown Substance At Strip Club

Two officers, one EMS worker and three civilians were taken to the hospital early Friday morning.

Brooklyn, IL – Two law enforcement officers and an EMS worker were hospitalized early Friday morning after they responded to a report of multiple overdoses at a nightclub.

Officers and emergency medical personnel arrived at Roxy’s Exotic Club just before 3 a.m. and administered Narcan to at least one of the individuals who overdosed, KMOV reported.

EMS workers transported two patrons and one nightclub employee to the hospital, according to the Belleville News-Democrat.

Investigators said that, as they assisted individuals inside the club, two law enforcement officers and one EMS worker made contact with an unknown substance, KMOV reported.

On Friday, that substance was identified as fentanyl, Illinois State Police Captain Timothy Tyler told KTVI.

Washington Park Fire Department officials said that an officer was transported to the hospital by a fellow officer, according to KMOV.

Later in the morning, officials said that a Brooklyn police officer and an EMS worker had also been transported for possible exposure.

"We had multiple pedestrians go down, they couldn't breathe," Brooklyn Police Lieutenant Antonio White told the Bellville News-Democrat. "One of them was given CPR and after receiving CPR one of the officers went down as well. He was rushed to the hospital, there was a second officer on scene and he got rushed to the hospital."

At approximately 4 a.m., Brooklyn and Madison fire units were dispatched to the nightclub to help handle the possible hazmat situation.

The Illinois State Police Drug Unit also arrived and collected the substance for further testing.

Five of the six individuals rushed to the hospital for exposure to the drug have since been released from the hospital.

The male patron who remained hospitalized was listed in serious condition.

It was unknown how many people were inside the club when the incident occurred. First responders immediately evacuated the building.

Roxy’s Exotic Club has been placed under quarantine and was expected to remained closed over the weekend.

No arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation as of Friday morning, KTVI reported.

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JBo
JBo

I don't know why you presume to think of me as a cancerous boomer that's had it so easy...I started work on my family's farm stringing tobacco and skinning timber at 8 years old, then as a paperboy at age 12 for my "second" job. My first job that paid me by check was as a busboy...83¢ per hour.

I started with nothing except a work hard ethic and a desire to get the best education possible. I paid for my college education and continued to work for the next half dozen decades. I'm financially secure, I earned it, I share it and I still have the callouses on my hands.

Each generation tries to make life easier for the next generation. The Depression Era parents tried to make life a little easier for their children, the Greatest Generation, and so on up the line. I didn't want my children to have to string tobacco or go hunting in order to put food on the table if they wanted to eat each day.

Just remember that someone, somewhere has made your life a little easier than it was for them or their generation or generations before them. A silent "thank you might be in order for someone in your genealogical time line instead of wishing entire generations would die.

As for jailing drug abusers, you can't build enough prisons to house everyone in this country that abuses drugs. The war on drugs doesn't work. New thinking is needed and it will have to start at the family level.

I've spouted off enough, I'm tired. Bye.

Hi_estComnDenomn
Hi_estComnDenomn

@JBo You would have a point on drugs if those that were locked up decades ago for using were let out en masse. Drugs are illegal, and people aren't going to jail for them. They should be, in droves.

Hi_estComnDenomn
Hi_estComnDenomn

@JBo The Silent Generation were useless Yes Men. But at least they tried to make things better for future generations.

The Greatest Generation,however, was amazing, and were a big reason the US had a win streak for decades.

In fact, they are the reason snowflake Baby Boomers had it so easy growing up. And because you had it so easy, you expect everyone is having it just as easy. Take and cry, cry and take. Never considering the generations that follow you.

Hi_estComnDenomn
Hi_estComnDenomn

@DieselDawg Spouting more bullshit i see. Fentanyl is largely shipped from China, not Mexico.

DieselDawg
DieselDawg

Fentanyl reportedly is pouring across our southern border from laboratories run by the cartels in Mexico. It is so powerful that it can be toxic just to touch it. This boils down to chemical warfare on the USA from Mexico but we cant secure the border because that would be "racist".

No. 21-30
ShootaThugSaveaCop
ShootaThugSaveaCop

personally I am not in fave of our socalled "war on drugs" policy it has done little but incarcerate low level dealers and hundreds of thousands of users while having almost no impact on importers and high level dealers and the money men behind them

JBo
JBo

I'm not sure what more the government can do to protect people from themselves. Putting more drug abusers in jail hasn't worked to solve drug problems over the last 50 years...there's no reason to think that'll start working now. The war on drugs failed long ago.

Maybe you should treat the drug abusers with the same regard you treat the baby boomers that you despise so much when you say, "Boomers are cancer and this country will be better after you either die of old age or we continue to make you completely obsolete."

I suppose you also include the "Silent Generation" and the "Greatest Generation" in your cancers remark so when we all die...that would get rid of more than 31% of the population for you and you would finally be happy.

Hi_estComnDenomn
Hi_estComnDenomn

It would be great if the government did more to protect people from opioid abuse. I don't understand why Midwest jails aren't packed to the brim with abusers, because that area is awash in fentanyl.

LEO0301
LEO0301

The police will need to start wearing hazmat suits to these calls.