Theodor Pallady High School, evacuated after a strong smell of gas alert. Distrigaz found a gas leak near the school
Theodor Pallady High School in Sector 3, Bucharest Photo: Facebook
The authorities intervened on Tuesday at the Theodor Pallady high school in Sector 3 of the Capital after they were alerted to the existence of a strong smell of gas. The gas was turned off and the students and teachers were evacuated. Following the checks, Distrigaz found that the gas leak did not take place inside but at a valve near the high school, according to ISU Bucharest-Ilfov.
According to the information cited by Antena3, the teachers were the ones who called the single emergency number 112, and until the arrival of the intervention teams, all the windows were opened to ventilate the premises. The teachers complained of the smell of gas on the first floor of the school. The call took place around 12:00.
The ISU states that measurements were also carried out inside the high school, in the classrooms, but the specialists found that there are no gas leaks inside, the only one being at a valve outside the building.
Students sent home
The school management decided to send the children home until the checks are finished, the head of the School Inspectorate of the Municipality of Bucharest (ISMB), Florian Lixandru, stated for Agerpres. Also, the students who studied in the afternoon exchange will not have lessons today.
“The people from Distrigaz came, they are doing checks and it was decided for the afternoon shift that the children go home until the people from Distrigaz, who understand that they have returned to that point, do not finish the checks and will not give a point of view, let's see where that smell was coming from. They said that the smell was not from inside, that it would have been from outside, but no one allows themselves to put the children's lives in danger, which is why the children were sent home”, explained Lixandru.
At the high school, a CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) crew intervened for measurements, a SMURD crew and a fire truck.
During the intervention, no medical problems were registered among the evacuated students and teachers.
