6:36PM Wednesday
March 6, 2013

A man who got into a fight with Boise Firefighters this morning caused a mercury spill.

KBOI-TV-2 reports The man walked into the fire station on Chinden bvld. in Garden City asking for help with a medical issue.

Firefighter's started to help him, but he started to fight and In the process a blood pressure device was knocked to the ground and broke causing a mercury spill.

The man was transported to St. Als where haz-mat crews isolated the emergency room for several hours.

The crews didn't find any contamination at the hospital.

Firemen were decontaminated at the scene.