Parents angry about school evacuation

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) --  A strange smell at a school in Hartford sent two workers to the hospital and students out of the building Tuesday.

Parents rushed to the doors of Sanchez elementary school, as soon as they heard a bad smell caused a school evacuation around 9 a.m.

"It was a very scary experience. They didn't call the parents or anything," said Jennifer Remigio, parent. "I found out from a friend calling me at work, so it was a very scary experience"

By 10 a.m. the kids were back inside the building, but worried parents were taking their kids home anyway.

"They evacuated the kids because there was a smell in the bathroom, what else was it baby," said Jennifer Chevere, parent.

"The little kids was getting too much sick and then we had to evacuate," said Jathaniel Chevere, student.

"But they still put you back inside in the gym," said Chevere.

School officials say a custodian and a security guard went to investigate the smell then they didn't feel well and went to Hartford Hospital as a precaution.

The first department declared the building safe, but rumors of a gas leak and lack of communication left parents worried and angry.

"They have to stay in the gym so that means there's still a gas leak or whatever, parents were not notified that's why they are stripping their kids out of school," said Austin Bush, parent.

"What about if it had been an explosion, a gas leak comes to an explosion, I don't think that's right," said Chevere, "that's my opinion"