Sick Teens Prompt Emergency Response to Rosslyn Station
Several children were treated for dehydration.
Three students were treated and released from Virginia Hospital Center late Thursday after they and members of their tour group showed symptoms of dehydration. A large tour group of students and their chaperones from Texas spent the day in Washington, D.C., and Thursday night began feeling sick, Arlington County Fire Department Capt. Gregg Karl said. About half of the group was already back at their hotel at 1500 Arlington Blvd. when they began to feel ill. The others were on a train heading into Rosslyn Station. Arlington County police and fire, along with Metro transit police were called to the station shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday. One of the teens vomited on the Metro platform, prompting other students to "stampede" out of the station…
