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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Kiryas Joel school evacuated 

About 200 boys were evacuated from a middle school this morning after two of them fainted, triggering fears of a carbon monoxide leak in the building, authorities said.
Those fears turned out to be unfounded. Kiryas Joel firefighters are still checking the vacated Riminev Court boys' school, but no trace of a gas leak has been found, according to the state police and Moses Witriol, the village's public safety director.
Witriol said the two boys — one of whom had strep throat — were taken to a doctor in Kiryas Joel. Stifling heat in the room where the boys were gathered is suspected to have played a role in the episode.
The initial report — which came a little after 9 a.m. — of "a large gas leak" with four or five children down sparked a massive emergency response. Ambulances, the personal vehicles of emergency medical technicians and Kiryas Joel fire trucks lined the blocked-off street.


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