Thompson official to regularly test gas leaks in middle school

Thompson-and the city fire marshal plans to carry out regular tests for gas leaks on the Thompson Middle School after a dozen people with breathing problems were brought to the hospital on Thursday, officers said.

Thompson Fire Marshal James Seney Jr. said that he also recommended Thompson Public School, carbon monoxide detectors in every classroom near the concern as a “precaution”.

The department carried out a number of tests in the Riverside Drive school complex on Friday, but said Seney no low oxygen content or found no contamination in the air, including carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide.

The firefighters initially reacted to school when 12 people reported shortly after the start of teaching against nausea, drowsiness and breathing problems in connection with the lessons.

Smith said the victims to whom students from the independent leading Bradley School Windham County were rated by the school nurse and then brought to the region with ambulances.

According to Seney, five of the patients were sent to the Kimball Hospital in Putnam, while the rest were brought to hospitals across the border between Massachusetts in Webster and Southbridge. He noticed that everyone has been released since then.

According to Seney, emergency crews reacted to school after an employee had taken over to acquire and use a personal “non -school -approved” carbon monoxid detector.

He said the device had 21 parts per million carbon monoxide, of which he found that they were under eight hours below the recommended exposure limit of the professional security and health administration.

“It is not known whether this unit was recently calibrated or tested,” said Seney.

Seney said that Thompson Building's official had evaluated the machine room, which contains the two oil boilers after the school was classified as safe and had not found any obvious mechanical failures.

“A carbon monoxide detector in the machine room is firmly wired into the fire alarm system of the buildings,” said Seney. “The alarm was not activated, which states that the carbon monoxide levels were within the room within the permissible limits and the alarms did not reach any activation levels.”

Seney also found that a faulty derivation fan and heat breathing within the school are not regarded as a source of the problem, since the heating system is driven with forced hot water and no forced hot air.

After the firefighter's office carried out tests for gas on Thursday, he returned to the school complex on Friday and carried out further tests throughout the school complex, including the nearby primary and high schools and administrative offices.

Seney said that the crews had tested every room, but found no evidence of carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, fleeting organic compounds or flammable substances. He said the oxygen level also seemed normal.

“It was found that the machine room near the origin of the classroom of the incident contains equipment garage and vehicle parking spaces outside of this garage area,” said Seney. “There is no evidence that these vehicles or devices have an impact on increased carbon monoxide level in the school building.”