Alabama IRS employee sickened after exposure to package with unknown substance
Published 9:27 am Thursday, February 20, 2020
An Internal Revenue Service employee in Mobile became sick Wednesday after being exposed to a package containing an unknown substance.
Mobile Fire-Rescue crews responded to the IRS building in Mobile after a 55-year-old man reported being sick from a liquid that was in an international letter he received. The city’s hazardous materials team arrived at the scene at approximately 2:03 p.m.
The building was evacuated before MFRD arrived on the scene. HazMat teams received the suspected letter for testing. All preliminary tests at the scene came back negative for any chemical or biological substances of any kind.
The IRS employee who received the letter was attended to at the scene and was found to be stable with no signs or symptoms of illness.