Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Gas Odor Evacuates Havre de Grace High Building

The gym building was evacuated around 12:30 p.m.

UPDATED (1:50 p.m.)—A portion of  has been evacuated for a "faint odor of gas," a school official confirmed to .

The building containing the gymnasium, auditorium and the music department was evacuated around 12:30 p.m.

Teri Kranefeld, manager of communications for Harford County Public Schools, told Patch in an email a "faint gas smell was detected by the boiler room near the gym. That building has been evacuated. Police and the [] are on site to assess the situation."

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Kranefeld had no further info as of 12:44 p.m.

Students in the gym and auditorium building were moved to the main building.

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told Patch in a text message Monday afternoon that the Susquehanna Hose Company reported a gas leak in the boiler room to BGE. Hurst added that a BGE crew was on the scene around 1:45 p.m.

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