{"id":15765,"date":"2016-07-31T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15765"},"modified":"2016-07-31T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:04:46","slug":"video-update-dozens-of-chicago-postal-employees-sickened-by-heat-at-river-north-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/07\/31\/video-update-dozens-of-chicago-postal-employees-sickened-by-heat-at-river-north-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Update: Dozens Of Chicago Postal Employees Sickened By Heat At River North Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=1450394\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"dateline\">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212;<\/div>\n<p>Almost 40 U.S. Postal Office employees at a River North facility were treated Saturday morning for heat-related illnesses, including dizziness and nausea, after temperatures inside the building reached nearly 100 degrees, a Chicago fire official said.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen employees were hospitalized and another 23 workers were treated at the scene of the facility at West Ohio and North Dearborn streets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cm8inlineAdCont158081794\">&#8220;It&#8217;s hot in this building. Extremely hot. No air conditioning,&#8221; said postal worker Kenneth Norman early Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An air conditioner had malfunctioned, a USPS spokesman said. Employees said temperatures were nearly 100 degrees since mid-week.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, employees were working at the facility since 5 a.m. A supervisor who was throwing up was among those who were treated. A CTA cooling bus was also sent to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You go through the door&#8230;you could feel like an oven on and you can&#8217;t open windows up there so everybody just started getting dizzy and throwing up, getting sick,&#8221; said postal worker Aileen Harris. <a href=\"http:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/news\/dozens-of-postal-employees-sickened-by-heat-at-river-north-facility-\/1450018\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cm8inlineAdCont158081794\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cm8inlineAdCont158081794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15766\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/chicago-heat-illness.jpg\" alt=\"chicago-heat-illness\" width=\"458\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/chicago-heat-illness.jpg 458w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/chicago-heat-illness-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Almost 40 U.S. Postal Office employees at a River North facility were treated Saturday morning for heat-related illnesses, including dizziness and nausea, after temperatures inside the building reached nearly 100 degrees, a Chicago fire official said. Thirteen employees were hospitalized and another 23 workers were treated at the scene of the facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15767,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15765\/revisions\/15767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}