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(KSL News) -- Crews believe a Freon leak from a refrigerator made a group of students ill at Murray High School this morning.
School administrators say a repair worker filled the fridge with the liquid this morning in the Occupational Foods classroom. The Freon apparently left behind an odor, and while students were in the middle of a lesson, some of them began feeling sick.
Matt Kesteloot, Student Teacher: "A student started to pass out in the class during the demo and we stopped and evacuated the building."
Lisa Cone, Student: "I was just getting nauseous and I had a headache and I thought I was gonna throw up."
Administrators say 15 to 20 students complained of headaches and dizziness. Emergency crews took one of the students who passed out to the hospital as a precaution.
They say the occupational foods classroom was the only room in the school impacted. No other classrooms at Murray High were evacuated, and no one was seriously hurt.
