76 Students Sent to Hospital for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at Iowa Law Enforcement Academy

  • Source: WHO-TV NBC 13 Des Moines
  • Published: 11/15/2018 08:03 AM

Seventy-six students at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy at Camp Dodge are being treated at Des Moines metro hospitals after a carbon monoxide leak was reported at a dormitory Thursday morning. Judy Bradshaw, Director of the ILEA, says an overnight security guard noticed a strong odor of gas at the dormitory just before 6:00 a.m. She called 911 and immediately contacted the sleeping students and began evacuating the building. There were 81 students in the dormitory at the time of the incident. When the first crew from the Johnston-Grimes Metro Fire Department arrived shortly after 6:00 a.m., they found high levels of carbon monoxide in the building, with the strongest reading in the basement.



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