The BrocktonPost
BROCKTON--Brockton's Huntington Elementary School students were suprisingly interrupted from their studies for about 30 minutes Thursday morning when the school was evacuated due to an odor of gas.
Deputy Fire Chief George Phillips said the fire department received a call at about 9:36 a.m. this morning from a teacher at the Warren Avenue school reporting there was a smell of gas in an area of the school.
He said students were shepherded by staff and administators to the south end of the school's parking lot while fire department personnel investigated the building.
"It was like a fire drill," Phillips said.
Phillips said department members used gas meters and found "no levels" of gas within the building.
He said the gas company, which also sent representatives to the school, reported it had installed a new boiler in the school's basement a couple of days before and the boiler could have been the source of the gas-smell.
Phillips said the incident lasted about 30 minutes and students were outside in today's 30 degree temperatures for about 20 minutes or so.
"Once we found that there wasn't a problem, we got them in as quickly as we could," Phillips said. "If there was a problem we would have made immediate plans to move the students inside," he said.
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