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Title:
Teachers and Students Raise a Stink
About Bad Smell at Vegas School
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ID:
LL170
Issue:
SU2-4
Issue Date:
2005-07-01
Edition:
School
Type:
Article
Body:
Thirty-six teachers and students at a Las Vegas school have filed a personal injury lawsuit over strong odors that periodically appear in a new wing of their school, according to KLAS-TV.
The Las Vegas television reported that dozens of students and some teachers have become ill because of an odor that was described as being similar to the smell of raw sewage. Pamela Young, a teacher at Advanced Technologies Academy High School, told a reporter that the odors have caused her to have burning eyes, nose and throat, shortness of breath, irritability and headaches. The story said that Jane Oler, the school principal, thought the odors began after a new wing was opened last year and worsened this spring. She acknowledged that some classes had to be evacuated because of the smell. Attorney David Francis told a reporter that, as of early May, 36 plaintiffs had signed onto the lawsuit. Francis said his law firm receives about a half dozen new phone calls every week about the problem at the school. ìOne teacher underwent surgery on his nasal passage. According to his doctor it was a result of harmful gasses," Francis said. On one occasion, several anonymous students called the Las Vegas Fire Department to the school because of the odor. The firefighters' equipment, however, did not detect any dangerous levels of toxic sewage gases, according to the report. District officials say they are doing all they can about the problem. They have called inspectors to the school some 60 times to find the source, but it has yet to be detected. The television station said that the city of Las Vegas may soon step in to see if it can remedy the problem. The sanitation department may flush the main sewer pipes. The district also plans to run a camera down every pipe to see if any flaws can be detected. "I want it fixed completely and so do others at the school†that don't want risking their health to be a part of the equation when they come to school every day,î Young told the television station.
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