Crime & Safety
Magruder High School Evacuated Due to Gas Odor Thursday
MCPS: Odor may have come from sewer pipe.
Seven students and two staff were taken to the hospital for checkups Thursday following reports of a gas odord at Magruder High School.
The building was evacuated shortly after 2 p.m., after a gassy stench was detected on the second floor and students and teachers reported feeling sick, Montgomery County Fire & Rescue spokeswoman Beth Anne Nesselt said.
Nesselt said Hazmat units did find any toxic or potentially hazardous conditions at the school.
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Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Dana Tofig said an initial determination was that the odor came from a sewer pipe in one of the classrooms. Tofig said the pipe was capped and the building was cleared for re-entry at around 3:30 p.m.
That classroom will be closed on Friday, Tofig said.
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The high school’s evacuation coincided with dismissal, Tofig said.
A field hockey game at the school went forward as planned, though an after-school class was canceled, Tofig said.
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