{"id":541339,"date":"2026-05-11T22:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=541339"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:10:24","slug":"emergency-ministry-responds-to-mercury-spill-in-smaliavichy-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/emergency-ministry-responds-to-mercury-spill-in-smaliavichy-district","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Ministry Responds To Mercury Spill In Smaliavichy District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Workers at an enterprise in the village of Barsuki in Smaliavichy District discovered a deformed rubber container and mercury on the floor while cleaning a warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Ministry personnel arrived at the scene. Air analysis detected the presence of mercury vapours. A total of 1.2 kilograms of spilled mercury was collected. Repeat measurements showed no excess of permissible norms.<\/p>\n<p>There were no casualties, the Emergency Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mchs112by\/12754\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-541339-1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_2716.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_2716.mp4\">https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/img_2716.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at an enterprise in the village of Barsuki in Smaliavichy District discovered a deformed rubber container and mercury on the floor while cleaning a warehouse. Emergency Ministry personnel arrived at the scene. Air analysis detected the presence of mercury vapours. A total of 1.2 kilograms of spilled mercury was collected. Repeat measurements showed no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a02e073a5174.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Emergency Ministry Responds To Mercury Spill In Smaliavichy District"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}