Heat Exhaustion Hits 28 Pupils on Bus
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Twenty-eight students from Valley Vista Elementary School in Bonita suffered heat exhaustion while returning home on a bus from a camping trip Friday afternoon and had to be treated at area hospitals, authorities said.
Eleven students were taken to AMI Valley Medical Center, 13 to Grossmont Hospital and four to Alvarado Community Hospital, according to a California Highway Patrol spokeswoman. The students, ranging from 8 to 12 years old, were treated for nausea, hyperventilation, dehydration and hysteria, said a nursing supervisor at Grossmont Hospital. All were released.
The students were returning from sixth-grade YMCA camp when they became ill about 3 p.m. on the bus, which did not have an air conditioner, authorities said.
School officials could not be reached for comment.
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