Lecture Sickens Students, South Brunswick High Evacuated

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — Three students were sickened Monday morning during a lecture at the South Brunswick high school — and it prompted an emergency evacuation of the entire high school, police said. The three students all fell ill at the same time Monday morning, at 10:30 a.m., while sitting in a second-floor classroom at the high school. They all reported feeling light-headed.

That prompted their teacher to become nervous, who called the front office. The entire high school was evacuated and all 2,700 students plus several hundred teachers and staff filed outside, said Captain James Ryan. The Monmouth Junction and Kendall Park fire departments, South Brunswick EMS and the South Brunswick Fire Marshal all responded to the school and took air quality samples. No hazardous materials or gases were found in the air and the students were allowed back into the building just after 11 a.m.

The students may have been sickened by what was being taught in the lecture, Capt. Ryan said. It was either a biology, health or some sort of science class, he said, and they may have been learning about blood.