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'Frisky' Cat Causes Mercury Spill In Greeley

GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) - There was a chemical spill in Greeley on Tuesday, all because of a cat.

The hazmat team responded to a duplex on 13th Street following a mercury spill. The man living there told firefighters his cat knocked the chemical over.

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(credit: Greeley Fire Department)

"The occupant reported that a vial containing approximately 2 teaspoons of mercury had been knocked over by a 'frisky' cat," Dale Lyman with the Greeley Fire Department said in a statement.

A hazmat team cleaned up the spill and nobody was injured.

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