Seven hospitalized ‘including four juveniles’ in mass fentanyl poisoning after deadly drug is released through air vents

SEVEN people have been taken to hospital after fentanyl was released through the air vents at a detention center.

Four young people who are detained in the Northwest Ohio Juvenile Detention Training and Rehabilitation Center in Stryker were hospitalized.

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Jeff Lehman, chief deputy for Williams County Sheriff Department, said they’re expected to be ok, reports.

The youngsters' identities and ages have not been revealed.

Three corrections officers have also been hospitalized.

It’s not known how the fentanyl was released as an investigation is underway.

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Detainees were moved to the Corrections Center in Northwest Ohio.

Fire crews, medics, and emergency workers were pictured at the scene on Sunday.

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The Northwest Ohio Juvenile Detention Training and Rehabilitation Center has capacity for 64 youngsters.

Fentanyl is considered 50 times stronger than heroin and 80-100 stronger than morphine.

It comes just days after four men were hospitalized due to fentanyl near Fort Lauderdale.

Fire rescue crews found the men, ages 26 to 39, in a residence that contained “drug residue”, according to the sheriff’s office.

All four men were using cocaine when two of them went into cardiac arrest, police say.

The other two gave them mouth-to-mouth and were exposed to fentanyl, all being hospitalized as a result.

It came after six West Point cadets were involved in a mass overdose from fentanyl that affected seven spring breakers.

Several went into cardiac arrest.

Police arrested 21-year-old Axel Giovany Casseus in relation to this incident.

He has been charged with trafficking cocaine, however, not with supplying the drugs to the college students.

There does not appear to be a connection between the two overdoses, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.

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Florida officials warned spring breakers to stay vigilant.

“We’re seeing more cases testing positive for both cocaine and fentanyl,” said Liz Zaney, a toxicologist with the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office.