Gas fume scare evacuates Maplewood elementary school

Children at a Maplewood elementary school were briefly evacuated Thursday after gas fumes entered their classrooms. The Jefferson Elementary School superintendent says the fumes came from open gas cans

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Nov 30, 2006, 1:33 PM

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