Chicago Fire's Daniel Kyri Recalls Moment He Nearly Died After Accidentally Drinking Bleach onKid Nation(Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Daniel Kyri is looking back at a frightening experience from his time onKid Nation.

When asked about the “infamous” incident, Kyri shares that it happened in the “early morning,” adding, “We’re in charge of the saloon. We’re gonna get in there and we’re gonna start our morning off right.”

“I just grab this sort of faintly yellow liquid. It’s giving citrus. It’s giving lemon, like it’s giving fresh,” he recalls.

However, it turned out to not be the fruity drink that the actor was expecting.

“Unbeknownst to us, the crew would have to sanitize certain areas where we ate and drank, and they put bleach in bottles that looked like soda,” fellow contestant Olivia Cloer claims.

Not realizing what he was drinking, Kyri remembers that he “unhinged my jaw, and it’s like, gulp, it’s gulp, it’s gulp.”

Almost immediately, Kyri realized something was very wrong, recalling, “And then, a burning and fumes, the fumes that kind of rise up, it chokes off your oxygen so you can’t breathe.”

“Somebody grabs the bottle and she smells it,” he adds. “She’s like, ‘It’s bleach,’ and I just like, take off running to where all the adults are.”

CBS did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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