{"id":60193,"date":"2024-11-15T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60193"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:16:04","slug":"news-alert-lehigh-senior-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/11\/news-alert-lehigh-senior-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS ALERT Lehigh Senior High School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

HEAT-RELATED INCIDENT \u2014 LEHIGH ACRES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25 students were evaluated after a heat-related incident, and 2 were taken to the hospital<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty-four Lehigh Senior High School students had to be assessed by paramedics after a heat-related incident on the school’s football field in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lehigh Acres Fire and Lee County EMS crews responded to the incident at 9:03 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SDLC confirms that the school’s JROTC was performing a Veterans Day ceremony when multiple students started experiencing symptoms of heat exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LSHS’s School Resource Officer (SRO) originally reported that around ten students were experiencing symptoms, some of whom lost consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the first arriving fire crews arrived, they later determined that seventeen students had sustained heat-related injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the incident, EMS crews evaluated a total of 25 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two students were transported to Golisano Children’s Hospital for heat exhaustion while the rest were released from the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An additional student was transported to GCH from Lehigh Senior High School for an unrelated medical issue.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tayna Roach, a representative for LSHS, sent out an email to parents at 9:21 AM Friday morning calling it a “minor incident” where only “a couple” of students sustained heat-related injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This email was sent out to parents before emergency crews could fully evaluate the situation, which was determined to be a Level 3 Mass Casualty Incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scene cleared around 11:30 AM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lehigh Acres Fire and Lee County EMS crews are on the scene of a Level 3 Mass Casualty Incident at Lehigh Senior High School after over 20 students reportedly sustained heat-exhaustion-related injuries on the football field, some of which passed out. Initial reports indicate that they may have been engaged in a JROTC Drill when the incident occurred. This is a developing situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLARIFICATION: The fire department deems an incident with five or more patients as a “Mass Casualty Incident”. There are NO FATALITIES and nobody has died. This is not a shooting, this incident is purely heat-related, according to initial reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEFINITION: Since many seem to not know what the word \u201ccasualty\u201d means. Here it is from Merriam-Webster:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201ca person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It does NOT automatically mean a death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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