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Ft. Belvoir students hospitalized in 'hazmat incident'
Twelve students at Fort Belvoir Elementary School were hospitalized Friday afternoon due to what the school is calling a "hazmat incident."
According to its Web site, nine students at Fort Belvoir Elementary School were hospitalized Friday afternoon due to what the school is calling a "hazmat incident."
A later report by The U.S. Army puts the number of affected youth at 12. The students' complaints prompted the school to be put into "shelter-in-place" by the U.S. Army, Fort Belvoir at 3:30 p.m.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), defines the term "shelter-in-place" as taking immediate shelter where you are, and/or to seal a room if chemical or radiological contaminants are suspected to have been released into the environment.
According to Army spokesperson Donald N. Carr, the students originally complaining of "a minor rash, itching and coughing" are being evaluated at Dewitt Army Community Hospital. The school's Web site claims the children were transported there at 4:55 p.m.
The school normally lets out at 4 p.m., but all students and faculty were held until at least 5:45 p.m. due to the incident.
Carr said that no "experiments" are performed at the Fort Belvoir Army base, but said he did not know at this time if anything from the base could be responsible for the incident.
Please check back for updates to this developing story.
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