School With Mystery Illness Evacuated Again

Pittsfield, Massachusetts (United States):
Saline High School has been evacuated for the second time this week on Thursday, according to Pittsfield Township authorities.
Betty Rosen-Leacher, executive director of school instruction, said two more students fell ill and the Pittsfield Township Fire Department was called in to investigate. The department asked school officials to evacuate again.
School officials said in an e-mail to Local 4 that Saline High School will be closed on Friday.
Rosen-Leacher said the two students reported similar symptoms -- of nausea and illness -- as students from the previous two days.
About 1,800 students and faculty members were evacuated and directed to the school's football field. School buses were let in first to pick up students. Parents were being asked to go to a parking lot at the nearby Visteon plant to wait for orders to pick up their children, according to Rosen-Leacher.
Saline High School was evacuated on Tuesday after five students passed out and reported symptoms of nausea.
Classes resumed at the school on Wednesday, but six more students became ill.
Sept 29, 2005
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