MHS Students Released Following Reports of Potential Gas Leak
Students at Melrose High School were released at 10 a.m. Monday following reports of a potential gas leak.
Students at Melrose High School have been released for the remainder of the school day Monday, according to a school press statement, following reports of a potential gas leak. "Due to the reports of a gas odor at the high school building today students were relocated to the middle school for precautionary reasons," reads the statement. "After a thorough investigation National Grid and the Melrose Fire Department have determined that it was safe for all students and staff to return to the building. "There is however, some repair work that needs to be done which will require the HVAC system to be shut down. School administrators have decided to dismiss students at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 5th since the building will be without heat, …
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Randall Huston
8:43 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
So what happened here? Was there a leak or not and if there was a leak, what were they doing taking the kids back inside? There are a lot of unanswered questions here and the wording of the administration's statement is about as clear as mud. And why did they need to do repairs....was it because of a leak? The information left out here screams to be known. As for the administration, it's clear … more ›