How scary is this?
I know how Winnipeggers LOVE to complain about every cent the city spends. I say this one incident alone is worth every penny spent to acquire and man this bus.
By ROSS ROMANIUK, Winnipeg Sun
A total of 54 children and 19 adults were taken to hospital Thursday morning after a carbon monoxide leak, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has confirmed.
The WRHA says all of the patients were bused to Health Sciences Centre after high levels of the gas spread through the building, forcing children and staff to be evacuated from Peek-A-Boo Infant Child Care in the 3100-block of Portage Avenue.
A team of health-care specialists on each bus assessed the children, whose ages ranged from a few months to six years old, said the health authority. All the children and staff had been treated and released from HSC's children's emergency department by Thursday afternoon.
The kids and staff left Peek-A-Boo about 10:30 a.m. and many took shelter from the frigid temperature and bitter windchill at the nearby Boulevard Motel.
Firefighters and paramedics arrived en masse in several trucks, ambulances and other emergency medical vehicles, eventually carrying or walking with the children from the hotel to those vehicles and to the buses.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the leak.
I know how Winnipeggers LOVE to complain about every cent the city spends. I say this one incident alone is worth every penny spent to acquire and man this bus.
