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Smell of natural gas prompts Le Roy school evacuation

By Billie Owens

As a precautionary measure, the children at Wolcott Street School in Le Roy are being evacuated because of the smell of natural gas.

Rochester Gas & Electric Co. has been notified. Le Roy fire and ambulance crews are responding in case they are needed.

UPDATE 11:56 a.m.: Wolcott Street is being shut down. RG&E is on location. All Le Roy manpower is called to the scene. The school is at 6 Trigon Park.

UPDATE 12:08 p.m.: RG&E has pinpointed where the natural gas smell is coming from and is fixing it. But the children are continuing to exit the school as instructed. An officer asks if a group of kids wearing T-shirts from gym class can be escorted to the nearby church and/or MacDonald's to keep warm. A supervisor says "I think we're going to have to put everybody in the far building on Trigon Park." A fire truck is told to park at an intersection close by, not sure which one, to help control traffic.

UPDATE 12:19 p.m.: All Le Roy ambulance units are put back in service, leaving the scene.

UPDATE 12:23 p.m.: Fire police are reopening the intersection at Main and Wolcott, and Wolcott Street as well.

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