More than 50 students were taken to hospitals Tuesday morning after being sickened by exhaust fumes from a broken generator at a school in the city's Holmesburg section, a Philadelphia School District spokesman said.
About 9 a.m., students at Joseph H. Brown Elementary School reported feeling ill and the Philadelphia Fire Department was called, said spokesman Fernando Gallard.
The building was evacuated and the children were taken to a nearby church that serves as an emergency shelter for the school, at Stanwood Street and Frankford Avenue, Gallard said.
