“We were out playing on the grass...
“We were out playing on the grass and then the firemen came out there with loudspeakers yelling, ‘Get back inside, get back inside.’ ”
--Elisabeth Butcher, a sixth-grade student at Philip Magruder Middle School, where classes were disrupted by powerful fumes that fire officials suspect came from the nearby Mobil refinery in Torrance.
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