The Region - News from March 6, 1986
About 1,000 students were evacuated from classrooms at Fairfax High Adult School because of noxious fumes. Adult school Principal Janice Brittain said about 70 evening classes were in session when fumes began to invade the corridors, and she ordered the building evacuated. She said the fumes evidently came from five bottles of ammonium hydroxide that were spilled in a third-floor chemistry classroom which was not in use at the time. A janitor who was at work in that classroom was overcome but was later revived by paramedics, and no other injuries were reported. Cause of the spill was under investigation.
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