O’Fallon fire officials say students most likely experienced “psychosomatic-related anxiety.” A local therapist challenges the claim.
It happened last week at St. Clare Catholic School in O’Fallon, Illinois. Now, officials say the gas leak is not what caused the kids to feel sick. A local therapist disagrees, saying the claims don’t help the stigma of mental health.
O’Fallon Fire Department were called to St. Clare Catholic School last Thursday for a 13-year-old boy who passed out during morning mass.
The department said while they were there, they found a gas leak in the school’s kitchen.
“The kids in the immediate area saw him pass out and the anxiety and the nerves got to them. They presented some symptoms and when we got there we saw some readings that we attributed it to (natural) gas or carbon monoxide potentially,” O’Fallon Fire Chief Brad White said.
Seventeen students had to be taken …
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