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Ammonia Based Smelling Salts Sicken Students In Morris County: Officials Ammonia Based Smelling Salts Sicken Students In Morris County: Officials
Ammonia Based Smelling Salts Sicken Students In Morris County: Officials Ammonia-based smelling salts used by athletes and once used to treat fainting women had an adverse affect on students who brought the substance to a Morris County school, district officials said. A student brought the bottle of a type of "athletic smelling salt" to the Copeland Middle School on Tuesday, Feb. 7, and others who applied it were "adversely affected," Rockaway Superintendent Richard R. Corbett said in a letter to parents. The ammonia-based salts case an increase in heartbeat and alertness, however, have been a growing concern among athletes in recent years, according to a report…

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Truck Fire Evacuates Rockaway Township's Copeland Middle School Truck Fire Evacuates Rockaway Township's Copeland Middle School
Truck Fire Evacuates Rockaway Township's Copeland Middle School A Rockaway Township middle school was evacuated Tuesday morning after a delivery truck caught fire in the loading dock area outside. The first-floor fire alarm at Copeland Middle School went off around 10:25 a.m. after smoke entered the custodial room -- evacuating students and staff, Principal Alfonso Gonnella said in an email. The Lake Shore Drive building was cleared for re-entry around 11 a.m.

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Snapchat Threat Prompts Back-To-Back Rockaway Middle School Lockdown, Lock-In Snapchat Threat Prompts Back-To-Back Rockaway Middle School Lockdown, Lock-In
Snapchat Threat Prompts Back-To-Back Rockaway Middle School Lockdown, Lock-In A Snapchat message that prompted a lockdown at Rockaway's Copeland Middle School Tuesday also resulted in a lock-in Wednesday morning. Students and teachers were kept in the classrooms from 8 a.m. to 9:20 a.m. Wednesday morning as authorities searched lockers for weapons and dangerous items, Superintendent James McLaughlin said. The school went into lockdown mode Tuesday following the Snapchat sent out by a sixth-grader that said: "The sixth grade isn't going to be ready for this," followed by a surprised face, squirt gun and fire emoji, Police Chief Martin McParland told the Dail…

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