Two people faint and almost two dozen others feel ill leading to the evacuation of the Sacred Heart Church in Coronado as the students there were finishing up their last day of school. But the big question is what caused it?
17 students and five adults were transported to the hospital with apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from field tests. But 18 of the patients were taken to UCSD's Hospital and all of their blood tests showed the carbon monoxide was in a normal range when they arrived.
This morning about 300 people were evacuated from the church after two people fainted inside the church. A grassy area outside the church was sectioned off so the students and teachers could be evaluated and the parents were told by firefighters that some them had carbon monoxide poisoning.
"It's the worst possible thought because you think that people will begin potentially dropping like flies," says Denver McGarey who has four children at the school and one was taken to the hospital. "I panicked with everybody else...carbon monoxide is so unbelievable dangerous."
Investigators with SDG&E as well as San County health could not find a source of carbon monoxide and deemed the building safe.
A crowd gathers after Sacred Heart is evacuated. (Photo: Dennis Waldrop)
