Eight highschool college students on a faculty journey on the La Brea Tar Pits had been hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after apparently ingesting hashish edibles, in keeping with the Los Angeles Hearth Division and the Pure Historical past Museum of Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles firefighters responded to a name at 12:45 p.m. about three unconscious teenage boys at 5801 W. Wilshire Blvd., mentioned Brian Humphrey, an L.A. Hearth Division spokesperson. He mentioned a safety guard for the park known as concerning the teenagers.
Upon arriving, firefighters discovered the three together with 5 others, together with girls and boys, Humphrey mentioned. The eight younger folks had been experiencing an “altered stage of consciousness” after they apparently ingested “hashish edibles,” he mentioned.
Amy Hood of the Pure Historical past Museum of L.A. County, which oversees the La Brea Tar Pits, mentioned in a press release to The Instances that a number of highschool college students had been on a chaperoned area journey to the Tar Pits after they grew to become in poor health.
“Our workers acted rapidly to evaluate the scenario and search medical help,” Hood wrote. “In line with first responders, their signs had been attributable to one thing the scholars ingested on their very own, unrelated to the go to to La Brea Tar Pits.”
L.A. hearth paramedics took the eight folks to a close-by hospital. Their circumstances had been unknown.
