Dive summary:

• The El Dorado Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas has received $20,000 for respirators and masks from Clean Harbors Environmental Service.
• The donation comes after a gas leak last December forced evacuation for hundreds of people, including inmates at the county jail.
• During the December evacuation neither the inmates nor the police had any protection or equipment for the vapor cloud that arose from the Clean Harbor plant.

From the article:

Clean Harbors made the donation after a December chlorine gas release at its plant in El Dorado. No one was injured, but the incident led to the evacuation of hundreds of people, including inmates at the county jail.

Sheriff Mike McGough says the county had no equipment available for inmates and jail staff to use during the evacuation. The El Dorado News-Times reports the respirators will be available for sheriff's office and jail staff and the masks will be available for inmates. ...