Reassuring news. The people, mainly children, hospitalized on Friday in Brittany after suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in a school in Saint-Alban (Côtes-d’Armor), have all returned home, the mayor of the town said on Saturday .
“All the children have returned home” and “no one is hospitalized anymore,” declared the elected official, Nathalie Beauvy.
The town, near Lamballe, will make rooms available to accommodate the children on Monday morning, while waiting for the technical problem of heating this private school, probably the cause of the accident, to be resolved, she said. said.
“A medical-psychological unit will be present from mid-morning,” the diocesan direction of Catholic education said in a press release. “Additional staff will be present on site to welcome children and families,” the institution said.
“Our services will study with the authorities how children will be able to return to school,” she added. This school educates 76 children, aged 2 to 11, from nursery and primary schools.
An alert after headaches
The alert was given Friday morning around 10:30 a.m. at the Saint-Guillaume school, after headaches which had broken out there, “for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning”, according to the prefecture.
The emergency services had evacuated all the children as well as the five adults who were in this establishment. Forty-eight people in total were treated. Twenty-three of them were evacuated either by helicopter or by road to the hospital centers of Saint-Brieuc and Brest, according to the prefecture.
Of the fourteen victims initially classified as absolute emergency, without their lives being in danger, seven had been downgraded to relative emergency following their hospitalization late Friday afternoon, according to a report from the prefecture.