{"id":130004,"date":"2026-01-24T03:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130004\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:43:10","slug":"carbon-monoxide-scare-at-florida-school-sends-at-least-22-students-to-hospital-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130004\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon monoxide scare at Florida school sends at least 22 students to hospital, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 20 students were taken to the hospital <\/a>after a Carbon monoxide<\/a> scare at a Florida <\/a>school, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Everyone at Cypress Junction Montessori\u2019s middle school building in Winter Haven, Florida, was evacuated Friday morning after carbon monoxide detectors went off inside.<\/p>\n

Multiple students were taken to the hospital as a precaution, including 11 who were transported by ambulance and 11 who were taken by school bus, the Winter Haven Fire Department told The Independent.<\/p>\n

All the students were checked at the scene by medical professionals, and those taken for further treatment either had prior medical issues or were experiencing symptoms that were distressing to them, the fire department said.<\/p>\n

Cypress Junction Montessori is a public charter school that teaches preschool through 8th grade. The Independent has reached out to the school for comment.<\/p>\n

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More than 20 students were taken to the hospital after a Carbon monoxide scare at a Florida school, according to officials (Google Earth)<\/p>\n

There turned out to be no gas leak inside the school, but rather the carbon monoxide detectors were detecting something outside, quite a distance from the middle school building, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n

Ventilators were put inside the school as a precaution, and the air quality was deemed \u201call good,\u201d the fire department said.<\/p>\n

Sisters, Luna and Coral Brooks, from the elementary school building, had begun to worry that carbon monoxide would reach their classrooms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were also a lot of police and we were also about to have a fire drill so there was a lot going on. Everybody was OK. But there was a gas that is bad, it was in the other building,\u201d Luna told Spectrum Bay News 9.<\/p>\n

\"Everyone<\/p>\n

Everyone at Cypress Junction Montessori in Winter Haven, Florida, was evacuated Friday morning after carbon monoxide detectors in the school went off (file photo) (Emily Elconin\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Luna and Coral\u2019s father, Phillip Brooks, said that Cypress Junction Montessori\u2019s principal, Dr. Kris Newman-Lake, had been in constant contact with parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe principal has been emailing the parents all day, kind of keeping us up to date as they can, you know, as things develop. But yeah, it\u2019s never a good day when you see your kids’ school on the news with fire trucks and police cars everywhere,\u201d he told the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 20 students were taken to the hospital after a Carbon monoxide scare at a Florida school,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29771,64101,64104,64103,2957,28,30,29,64102,64087,7281,3384,21956],"class_list":{"0":"post-130004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-carbon-monoxide","9":"tag-carbon-monoxide-detectors","10":"tag-cypress-junction","11":"tag-cypress-junction-montessori","12":"tag-fire-department","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-headlines","15":"tag-florida-news","16":"tag-public-charter-school","17":"tag-school-building","18":"tag-school-bus","19":"tag-students","20":"tag-winter-haven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}