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Two Hooters Casino Hotel guests hospitalized after hot tub chlorine burns



Posted: Oct 08, 2011 10:19 PM MDT
Updated: Oct 08, 2011 10:21 PM MDT
Posted By Doug Johnson, Reporter - email

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -
The Clark County Fire Department says two hotel guest at the Hooters Casino Hotel were taken to the hospital for second degree burns.

Andrew Miller has burns on his legs and feet.

He is also friends with the two victims that were sent to the hospital.

"It seemed like we were fine but as we started walking back up to the room we all started noticing we were kind of itchy," Miller said.

Miller and his friends called Kevin Knox, a father of one of the group who made the room reservations.

Knox tells FOX5 when he arrived things were pretty bad.

"Went up to see him and he was in his bed and he was shaking he was so cold, and he just from his neck down to his feet he was completely red and on his back it was actually bubbling," Knox said.

When Knox called an ambulance, paramedics told him his son's friend had second-degree burns on 91 percent of his body and he was almost going into shock.

"That's when they said we got to take him to the emergency and we're taking her too because she couldn't even walk; her legs were just red," Knox said.

The Clark County Fire Department says it called the Southern Nevada Health District, which shut down the pool pending an investigation.

Calls to the Hooters Casino Hotel were not returned.

But Knox heard a rumor of what happened.

"They do have a chlorine system that goes every 15 minutes or so that puts out a little bit of chlorine, but at six o'clock in the morning when these kids were in it, it dumped all of it," Knox told FOX5.

Clark County Fire believes the burns were caused by chlorine exposure, but it is still trying to confirm if the accident was caused by a malfunction or human error.

Knox believes his son's friends weren't the only victims.

"The security explained to the fire department that (they) had several complaints of people getting burned so it's not just these two or these four," said Knox.

"We were trying to have a good time and now I have two of my buddies in the hospital right now," said Miller.