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Friday, August 3, 2012

UPDATE: Refrigeration Leak Detected at Mooseheart, Hazmat Advisory Team Sent Back

About 100 adults were evacuated Friday after initial reports of a possible Freon leak at Mooseheart.

About 100 adults were evacuated from a Mooseheart administrative building by  4:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, following a report of a possible Freon leak, Mooseheart officials said. The evacuation was from the Moose International headquarters building, the easternmost building on the campus of Mooseheart Child City & School. Officials at 5:30 p.m. actually discovered a minor refrigeration leak, a Tri-Com command report said. Batavia Battalion Chief Ed Jancauskas confirmed the minor leak and said that a mechanical engineer was at the scene late Friday afternoon looking at the building's system. "There was ... nothing obvious that was leaking," Jancauskas said. "It could have just been something small that set the alarm off." There was also no …

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3:50 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012

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Sunday, January 1, 2012

No. 4 of 2011: Threats at St. Peter School

An envelope containing white powder, a bomb threat and evacuation are upsetting any time, but when school children and a religious institution are involved, it's serious stuff.

  According to one Patch measuring stick, St. Peter Church and School Evacuated Following Threat was the most-read story on Geneva Patch in 2011. In subsequent write-throughs that day, the article headline was modified to UPDATE: Police Seek Suspect After St. Peter School Lockdown, Bomb Threat. Sometime before school opened on a Monday, Nov. 14, someone threw a rock through a window of an office at the school, located on the St. Peter Church campus at 1881 Kaneville Road. While cleaning up the glass, someone found an envelope containing white powder. At around 10 a.m., school administrators, along with Geneva police and fire officials decided to put the school into lockdown. The Aurora Fire Department was called in and determined that the …

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