Yeah… Exactly what title says, we got out of school like 40 minutes early because there was a chlorine gas leak. Some people vomited i think, and some other things like that. Well, heres the story, just me thinking of it as it comes to me:
1:50 central time, My fifth hour advanced geometry class, The fire alarm rings about 3 minutes after we hear sirens go by, which is a little normal. We thought it was a test, well, most people, not me though. Cause it was nearing the end of the day, we would NEVER have a test then. We all shuffle out of the school, My friends Nick and Robbie, and i, are sitting outside joking about what could have happened. We then see an ambulance loading a kid in a swimsuit. Just thought someone was injured… yeah. Next, a firetruck shows up with 2 firefighterswalking into the school fully dressed, oxygen and all. Then our whole school class starts moving around one side of the school, then into the gym of our elementry school, which was a few hundred feet away or so. Everyone was to go through a 4 foot wide door, so there was waiting time… Nick dared me to climb up a steps and go down a slide, in front of 700 people, and about 20 teachers lol. That was funny… all the teachers had turned right when i ran up the steps. Nick laughed really hard. Nick, Robbie, and I were all sitting in the gym for about 10 minutes, occasionally listening to some announcements that were going on that said ‘no one is allowed to go back into the building, if you have your keys on you, you can go to your car, walk if you want, otherwise there are buses comming’. Once they said you could drive yourself, i looked across the gym and saw my brother jumping lol… He ran over to me, he drove me home. Yeah… all this stuff happened about 20 mintues ago, thats just form where i left. The ordeal is still going now. 20 patients they say, one of them is a teacher. Yeah… So… Yeah… I’ll keep you updated if i can
Yes, very, and if you sorta wann know what school it is, we had a shooting back in 03’. 2 people were killed in that shooting… it was crazy… atleast thats not what happened here
When I went to work for the ethanol plant as their Environmental, Health and Safety Director, one of the things I had to do was file a report with the EPA on our ammonia & chlorine tanks. The report included such data as city and neighborhood populations, average wind speed and direction, tank capacities, and presented various scenarios of death caused from a spill. I calculated and included in the report the reach of death that would happen within ten minutes at a 5.87 mile distance from the plant. In that scenario, 80% of Rochelle’s population would be wiped out.
Most pools use a chlorine that comes in puck form, others use a liquid hypochlorite (Bleach). Most all pools have gotten away from chlorine gas for this reason. It is very dangerous and I can’t see a school still using it.
More than likely what happens is someone was cleaning their chlorinator (Puck style) with Muriatic acid and got in trouble (The two together create a mustard gas) It’s somewhat common. I’ve known pool techs to almost die this way. Also common is when they try to use Trichloride pucks in a Hypochloride system and you get a nice explosion…
Seriously - if they were still using chlorine gas at a school it’s time for a lawsuit. That stuff should have been changed out twenty years ago.
Minn. School Chlorine Leak Injures 25
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COLD SPRING, Minn. (AP) — About 25 people are being taken to a Minnesota hospital with apparent respiratory injuries after a chlorine gas leak at a high school.
Stearns County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Bruce Bechtold says the severity of the injuries in Wednesday’s leak at Rocori High School is not immediately clear.
He says “a good number” of the victims are students.
The school was the site of a deadly shooting more than four years ago. John Jason McLaughlin is serving a life sentence for killing two boys.
Hope everyone comes out OK. Chlorine is bad bad stuff…
yestarday around 1:40 central, a big bubble of chlorine gas came out of the vent at the bottom of the pool after maitenince had restarted the waterpumps that they had shut down for maitenence. once the bubble broke the surface, everyones noses started to burn from the smell. Their phy-ed teacher then told everyone to move down to the deep end, where it the vents hadnt started to produce it yet. Then the teacher told everyone to get out and shower off, since it couldnt be healthy. for the boys in our class, i know 1 vomited on the way to the locker room, a few others vomited in the showers, another one puked outside. the fire alarm was going off after everyone was gettin gtheir stuff off, all the kids left and went ouside then. Everyone that was in the pool area was told to be taken to the hospital, where they were stripped down and showered in a hazmat shower. The teacher suffered the most damage from the chlorine, she was airlifted (all the ambulances were full im pretty sure) and was getting x rays today to see for build up of liquid in the lungs. All the kids showed up today for school, a few left early cause they werent feeling good though, and like one or two for x rays. Everyone is pretty ok though, no one critical, everyones fairly fine.
A grade nine girl sprayed one tiny spritz of bear spray in her locker and it made 50 kids gag and vomit in one hall of my school. We were all evacuated and around a hundred students had to be stripped down outside in pairs and sprayed with a cold hose in front of all the firefighters.
Of course the school didn’t know it was bear spray so they had to treat it as a noxious gas.
The next year we had the same thing happen except this time it was a gas leak pushing through the floor. Thanks Mike Harris (canadian reference)
