This Trump supporter thought his dead Dad's fillings were silver and he was melting them, but the fillings were mercury.
This guy got his whole apartment building closed and gave his neighbors mercury poisoning. Nobody can return home until the building is decontaminated.
melting dental fillings causes closure of Massachusetts apartment building due to mercury contamination
A man melting down fillings inside a Massachusetts apartment building caused fire officials to deem the dwelling uninhabitable because of mercury contamination, according to WPRI.
Fall River firefighters were called to Hamlet Street apartment building Saturday and learned a 51-year-old man had tried to melt fillings on Jan. 25, the television station reports.
The man, who received the fillings from his grandfather, thought the fillings were made of silver, but the fillings were actually made of mercury. WPRI reports the man’s grandfather was a dentist.
WBZ reports the man then became sick and has been in the hospital since Jan. 28. The man’s girlfriend called the building’s management company prompting fire officials and a HAZMAT team responded to the building Saturday, the television station reports.
Fire officials told WBZ a 17-year-old girl living in the building tested positive for mercury.
WPRI reports there were “elevated levels” of mercury in the man’s apartment and other areas of the building. The building was deemed uninhabitable and won’t be opened until a crew cleans up the building, the television station reports.