Anaconda Job Corps...

[ELKCHSR]

I heard news today that this morning one of the new heating systems in the building where a bunch of the kids are housed malfunctioned and put about 50 of them in the hospital do to carbon dioxide poisening.
My neighbor was listening to the scanner and said a few of them were being life flighted out with no life signs...
I don't know any more than that right now, there have been ambulances going thru town all day because there was way to many for the hospital here in town to take care of.
I will update when I hear more...

 

[Elkhunter]

Anymore info Russ?

 

[ELKCHSR]

Nope, I am going to go over and see if the neighbor knows any thing a little later..
I didn't see one thing on the news yesterday about it. I am pretty sure it has to be true, every one was talking about it and there were aid cars running around town all day yesterday...

 

[Nut]

Hope the youngsters are okay.

 

[AKHighmark]

From CNN:

ANACONDA, Montana (AP) -- A cracked exhaust pipe on a heater caused a carbon monoxide leak that sickened 30 male students in a dormitory at a trade school Friday, leaving some unconscious and others suffering convulsions, authorities said.

Twenty students were flown to hospitals in Billings and Spokane, Washington, said Anaconda Fire Chief Bill Converse. They had to be flown to hospitals with hyperbaric chambers, in which patients breathe 100 percent oxygen to remove the carbon monoxide from their blood.

Authorities were called to the Anaconda Job Corps Center at about 7:30 a.m. after a nurse reported finding several dozen students sick, Converse said.

"She didn't know what was going on, but she knew something was wrong," he said. "When we got there, there were some students that were unconscious, there were some that were in convulsions and seizures. There were others who were conscious, but just weren't with us, if you know what I mean."

Their ages and conditions were not immediately available. The center serves men and women ages 16 to 24, according its Web site.

The leak appeared to have originated in an exhaust pipe attached to the dorm's furnace, Detective Steve Barclay said. Converse said the pipe had cracked and allowed exhaust to vent inside the building.

Crews from NorthWestern Energy were called in, and immediately detected high levels of carbon monoxide, company spokeswoman Claudia Rapkoch said.

How long the colorless, odorless gas had been leaking was not immediately clear. Montana has experienced unseasonably cold weather this month, and temperatures in the area dipped into the low 40s Thursday night, forcing many residents to kick their furnaces back on.

The Anaconda Job Corps Center serves 224 students and offers on-campus housing. It is part of the federal Jobs Corps program, in which young students learn a trade, earn a high school diploma or GED and get help finding a job. Job Corps supports its students for up to 12 months after they graduate from the program.

 

[Nut]

Job Corps supports its students for up to 12 months after they graduate from the program.

Then why am I doing that again with my oldest?

 

[brokfut]

"Job Corps supports its students for up to 12 months after they graduate from the program."

"Supports" means that we keep them in the "Creer Transition Services" database and provide job placement assistance.

There ain't no paychecks.

 

[Nut]

Yep he needs a job.

 

[ELKCHSR]

Maybe he could go work at the Job Corps....