A group of swimmers was enjoying the pool at the Rutland YMCA in Kelowna Monday morning when an alarm suddenly went off just before 10:30 a.m.
“I was doing laps in the pool. The alarm went off and they asked us to evacuate the pool. I couldn’t smell anything,” one man told CHBC News.
But there was something: a chlorine leak at the pool.
The leak forced swimmers out of the water and fire crews out to the scene.
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Platoon Captain Dale Calhoun with the Kelowna Fire Department says the leak was possibly triggered by a faulty valve on a chlorine bottle.
“This valve was on one of the bottles so that valve has been shut off completely,” Calhoun said. He adds that the faulty chlorine bottle has been taken out of the YMCA’s pool system.
Fire crews stayed on the scene to monitor and clean up the situation. They say there was never any danger to the people inside.
Calhoun adds that the incident was the second time that the fire department was called out to the YMCA. Fire crews were dispatched to the building just before 8 a.m. to contain another leak. There is no word on whether the two incidents involved the same bottle of chlorine.
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