Twenty high school students assessed by paramedics after gas leak in Melbourne’s west
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Twenty high school students are being assessed by paramedics after a gas leak in Seddon.
Firefighters and paramedics were called to the gas leak on Pilgrim and Albert streets at 11.06am.
They arrived to find a strong smell of gas, and cordoned off the area.
Footscray High School’s Pilgrim campus was evacuated.
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The source of the gas has been identified as a worksite, where a gas main had been disturbed.