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Now a Gas Leak in Virginia Tech, Two Critically Sick
August 20, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Environmental Health
A carbon monoxide leak at an off-campus apartment complex critically sickened two students and sent 17 other people to hospitals, it was reported. The leak was discovered late Sunday morning after a neighbor complained of fumes.
The two students critically sickened were at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. Their three roommates, all 19-year-old sophomores, were in stable condition at Duke University Medical Center in Durham.
Fourteen people were treated at hospitals and released Sunday itself.
The leak appeared to be from a faulty valve in a gas water heater in the apartment the five women shared, Blacksburg Police Capt. Bruce Bradbery said.
Hee was at the dedication ceremony on the main lawn of the 2,600-acre campus when he got a call about the injuries.
Tech enrolled a record freshman class of 5,200 for the fall, but university spokesman Mark Owczarski said officials won't know for a couple of weeks exactly how many of the 26,000 students returned this fall. Of those who withdrew before classes started, he said, only two reported they were doing so because of the shootings.
"There doesn't appear anything out of the ordinary," he said. "It's normal numbers."
One change is that no classes will be held in Norris Hall, where most of the killings took place. It is being used exclusively for engineering laboratories and offices.
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