NYC-WTC_000230709

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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PS 194 goes through a lesson in fear ?53 from the water fountains," The children were not imme- Scared staff tried to reach par- handed letters explaining what Blanks warned. diately told this, but around 9 ents by telephone. happened. But the letters ran C ANDREA "Don’t let them use the bath-, rooms." a-m.,-speech teacher Vladimir Kundel opened an envelope “We’ve had an anthrax scare," the parents were told. out at one point, and parents Ko i were frantic. It took only seconds for the stuck in his mailbox in the Yes, they used the A-word, PEYSER neat rows of children to fall fourth-floor faculty lounge. A the newest synonym for fear. “They’re retaliating against apart. white powder fell out, and onto As the teacher who handled my children,” Kim Orgil, whose > “Everybody was screaming,’’ his hands. the suspicious envelope was three children attend PS 194, SHORTLY after 9 a.m., the says fifth-grader Asia McNeil, A female colleague was also in taken to Bellevue Hospital for said about some unnamed principal charged into class- who could hear the yelps from the lounge, but she didn’t touch tests, parents streamed into enemy. O rooms on the fourth floor of the first floor. Harlem’s PS 194. “They were running down the “Line- up the children, and stairs,” said Natalie Burgos. 10. the powder. At one point, two children also walked into the room, but they soon left. school to retrieve their children, At least 10 kids were taken to a local hospital' for testing. Far- “I’m considering taking them home, teaching myself." q© bring them down to the audito- "And the cops starting coining Within minutes, police cruisers, ents fretted about whether the Dad Anton Green believed the O| rium," barked Principal Nina up the stairs." ambulances and Health Depart- school was safe, source of the scare must be' H closer to home than the Middle H Powell. This is how a routine morning ment vehicles clogged 135th Street Tests on the material won’t be Then, the kids heard ad minis- at school turns into pandemo- Some observers reported seeing completed until today or tomor- East. trative assistant Irving Blanks. nium. This is how a free society men in gas masks. For a lime, the row. “What terrorist knows about ro “Do not let the children drink'- ' learns'about (fear.f!' ' fourth floor was sealed.! 1 c t e J Some of the parents were ahis school?” hie^asked: v t ________ s o O O o o I o

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