Some of the more than 40 students hospitalized after a water heater leaked carbon monoxide in a building at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point began returning to the school early Monday morning, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Eight of the 42 patients exposed to carbon monoxide late Sunday night were taken to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset; they were treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Updates on the conditions of the other students were not immediately available.
Three students refused treatment, 20 were taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, seven went to Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola and four went to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, said Emily Ng, a spokeswoman for North Shore.
Authorities Sunday said no one lost consciousness during the leak, but three the transported students were listed in serious condition.
All those hospitalized were students, Ng said.
Those taken to North Shore were admitted at about 11 p.m.; all were released at 3 a.m., after being treated for exposure to carbon monoxide, Ng said.
Carbon monoxide was discovered leaking from a water heater in the basement of Barry Hall at about 10 p.m. Sunday, said Sgt. James Dalgish of the Kings Point Police Department.
The entire building, in the middle of campus, was evacuated as a precaution, Dalgish said.
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