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Firefighters respond to hazmat spill at UW

Seattle firefighters were called to the University of Washington for a hazardous materials spill or leak.

KIRO 7 first heard about the incident at 9:52 a.m. on Monday.

The location, 3749 Mason Road Northeast in Seattle, is Wilcox Hall, the university's materials science and engineering building.

Seattle fire said students dropped a small amount of hydrochloric and nitric acid on the floor of the lab. When mixed, those chemicals create a potentially dangerous gas.

The floor where the spill occurred was evacuated and a hazmat team cleaned up the spill.

No one was sickening or injured.