Three college students collapsed and 5 others displayed an “altered stage of consciousness” after apparently ingesting hashish edibles throughout a faculty area journey to Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits.
Paramedics from town’s hearth division have been referred to as at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday by a safety guard, who mentioned three boys have been unconscious. Video from the scene reveals a number of individuals being wheeled to ambulances on stretchers or wheelchairs, and the hearth division mentioned eight teenagers have been taken to a hospital.
Their circumstances weren’t launched.
Amy Hood of the Pure Historical past Museum of Los Angeles County, which oversees the La Brea Tar Pits, advised the Los Angeles Occasions that the kids have been highschool college students on a chaperoned area journey.
Neither she nor the hearth division recognized what college they have been from. Los Angeles Unified mentioned it was not one of many district’s excessive colleges.
La Brea is a paleontological analysis web site on Wilshire Boulevard the place the bones of animals trapped over many centuries have been preserved in naturally occurring tar.
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