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First responders were called to the scene last week after a group of school children became ill after performing a science experiment.
witty nashville WKRN mentionedThird-graders in the central Tennessee city of Gallatin were experimenting with dry ice, conducted by an unnamed “outside group,” when several of them reported nausea to the school nurse’s office.
Fearing a “mass casualty incident,” Sumner County EMS said in a statement to local reporters, first responders ranging from the fire department to the sheriff and police were brought to the school. Nineteen people, including 18 students and one teacher, were eventually taken to hospital, and the children's parents were notified.
as Room 12 News outlet addedthe students and their teachers were treated for carbon dioxide poisoning — which makes sense, since dry ice is fair Frozen solid carbon dioxide.
In addition to these 19 who were taken for examination at hospital, 20 others who were present for the trial were assessed by paramedics.
In an interview with WKRNThe parents of one of the children who fell ill during the incident seemed very upset by the way the school handled the situation.
“Most of the information I've gotten at this point is from a 9-year-old who is not well,” disgruntled father Ben Amboy told local news. “No doctor, no school representative, nothing.”
Amboy urged the Sumner County School District to step up its communication game during emergencies, which sounds like a polite Southern way of saying its officials need to get their act together. Due to the number of times schools Under siege by militants These days, that's not bad advice.
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