Three Caruthers Students Sprayed with Pesticides

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By ABC30

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Fresno, CA E.M.S. treated the two girls and one boy as soon as they got off their school bus. A Cal-Fire spokesman said they students were at a bus stop near a Caruthers vineyard when a farm tractor sprayed the area and the kids with pesticides.

The students got on the bus with about 50 others and started feeling sick when they got to school.

The 3 students are expected to be okay. Cal-Fire said the other kids on the school bus weren't exposed to the chemicals and were not in any danger.

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