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Article updated: 5/17/2012 5:34 PM

Antioch students, staff suffer respiratory problems from fumes

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Antioch Elementary District 34 officials coordinate efforts to send students home from Antioch Upper Grade School on Thursday. Several students reported feeling ill from fumes from a small fire in the building.

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Twenty students and two adults at Antioch Upper Grade School were treated at areas hospitals after they reported feeling ill because of fumes from a small fire in the building. Antioch school officials evacuated the building and sent students home for the day.

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Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com Antioch school officials coordinate efforts to send students home from the Antioch Upper Grade School on Thursday. Several students reported coming down ill.

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Twenty Antioch Upper Grade School students and two adults were sent to area hospitals with nonlife-threatening respiratory issues after the building was evacuated Thursday due to fumes from a small fire in a kiln in an art classroom, authorities said. "They weren't toxic fumes, but firefighters had us clear the building as a precautionary measure," said Mark Ostap, Antioch Elementary District 34 assistant superintendent for administrative services.