Sulfur dioxide closes school in La Greda once again, health minister warns of more to come.
Thirty-one students, seven teachers and two school officials were evacuated from Escuela La Greda, in the small town of Puchuncaví on Chile’s central coast, after a toxic cloud engulfed the school on Thursday morning.
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Thirty-one students, seven teachers and two school officials were evacuated from Escuela La Greda, in the small town of Puchuncaví on Chile’s central coast, after a toxic cloud engulfed the school on Thursday morning.
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Joe Hinchliffe
Joe is from Brisbane, arguably the greatest city in Australia outside of Melbourne and Sydney and not including the capital, which no one outside the country has heard of anyway. He studied journalism and geography at the University of Queensland. In 2009 he left to do his last year of study on exchange at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has lived in Santiago since mid-2010.
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