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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Fire officials say no lions or humans are injured after hydrochloric acid leaked in a building in a Hogle Zoo exhibit.
Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Jasen Asay says crews were called at about 10:45 a.m. on Sunday. He says an employee entered the basement of a building in the lion enclosure and noticed a 5-gallon drum of hydrochloric acid used to treat ponds was leaking.
The employee flushed the area and was later evaluated by medical personnel, but wasn't transported to the hospital.
Fire crews were determining how to neutralize a cloud of acid vapor that's contained in the basement. They closed a small portion of the zoo and moved some gorillas that were downwind of the building.
Asay says the lions were outside and weren't affected.
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