Saturday, October 15, 2005

Strange Odor Causes School Evacuation

Bristol Phoenix, RI
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Tiverton, RI (United States):

Pocasset Elementary School was evacuated last Friday during the noon hour for about 35 minutes when two children and three teachers reported feeling sickened by fumes in third grade classrooms on the first floor at the south side of the building.
The call went in to fire and police about 12:12 p.m. All school staff (about 30 in number) and all children, normally totaling 289, in grades K-4, left the building.
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The children were escorted to the playing fields behind the school. At least three fire trucks, two rescue vehicles, a fire command vehicle, two police cruisers, and the superintendent of schools arrived on the scene, most stationing themselves within sight of the fields.
A check of the building by firefighters came back negative for any specific contaminant., Subsequent testing, according to both Ed Fava, school principal, and fire chief Robert Lloyd, has ruled out air quality, heating outlets, computers, and the probably lights as a cause of the odor.
Tracy Priestner, one of the third grade teachers affected, said that about mid-morning she noticed "some sort of chemical type fume, pretty strong." One of the responding firefighters later said the smell had been described to him as a "fuel oil" type smell. According to Fire Chief Robert Lloyd, the two children who reported "not feeling well" and the teachers who said they felt nauseous were examined at the scene by paramedics and taken to local hospitals as a precaution.
Oct 14, 2005



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