SEATTLE (AP) — Jennie Reed Elementary School in Tacoma will reopen Monday after a sickening odor forced students and staff members to evacuate last week.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reports that health officials and investigators inspected the school Friday night and gave it a clean bill of health.
The school was closed Friday after 25 students and staff members were sickened by a strange gas-like odor. Eleven students were taken to the hospital for nausea, dizziness and other problems but none was admitted.
A report from Orion Environmental Services of Federal Way says the odor could have come from a residential gas leak, a construction site or traffic from Interstate 5.
