Could Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Happen at Your Child's School?
Patch talked to APS to find out what controls are in place to prevent another Finch Elementary carbon monoxide poisoning incident from happening at your child's school.
After 500 students and faculty were evacuated this week from Finch Elementary for carbon monoxide poisoning, other parents are beginning to wonder if the same could happen at their child's school. Some of the young students passed out and more than 40 of them–along with 10 adults in the school– were taken on stretchers in ambulances to local hospitals after being exposed to the high levels of the colorless, odorless gas. Only two states–Connecticut and Maryland– require schools to install carbon monoxide alarms. The incident at Finch, which made national headlines, could spur more legislation requiring these detectors in schools throughout the country. Steve Alford, spokesman for Atlanta Public Schools, said the incident at Finch "…
