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September 2, 2025 14 mins
Empowering minds, redefining evacuation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I go now to Kristen's hometown. When did we talk
about Mapleton the football game?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Right?

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Did?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I can't remember? Did they run it up or did
they get their asses?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Kid? Did they lose sixty to six?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Was it sixty nine to nothing?

Speaker 3 (00:14):
No? I thought it would have been more excited.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yeah, so that's right. They got blown out. How they
do this weekend? How do they do this weekend?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I got to pull it up.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, well, there's big happenings.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
There's big happenings at Mapleton, and I don't know if
they're open today.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I think they are. I think they are.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
They lost.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
They lost again? Man, they get another ass.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Kicking twenty eight twelve?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh who they lose to?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
They played Wellington this weekend. So anyway, Diane, let me
go back to Friday, right. People at school On Friday,
Mapleton's staff implemented emergency protocols for evacuation due to what
appeared to be a potential environmental contaminant. During the time

(01:01):
three Now I understand three isn't much.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
We're going to grow.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Three Mapleton Middle School students experienced symptoms including headache, nausea,
and dizzyness, spread out over a thirty minute period of
time after the building was evacuated, another thirty students experience
varying symptoms and conditions that required medical attention. Headache, nausea, indigestion,

(01:31):
dir dizzyness, and they have no idea what caused it.
They have no clue what caused it. But now you've
got almost forty students that got sick and they have
no idea what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
But was she getting info directly from the source on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Christian, you want to pop your sof on. But that's
where I learned. They said.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Mapleton Local School District conducted a safety drill that simulated
a very similar scenario, a gas leak in a high
school science lab. They did that two years ago, which
made them feel confident getting all these kids, getting all
these kids. It's twenty kids out of this, a lot
of kids out of the school. Well forty of them
got sick out of the out of the school.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, forty three confirmed total.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, you got a lot of illness. Chris, Did you
hear anything about this?

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I did? Actually on Friday ran in and asked Tyler
if you heard any updates on my school because I
know he follows.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Wait, but did you go to Mapleton or no, well,
Mapleton's yours. Oh were you there when they were doing.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Asking Tyler to follow your school? Tyler, she knows that
I do read news out of Ashland County every single day,
but the second we're done on a Friday, I stop
until Sunday. So she's like, She's like, and I didn't
know she was getting some sort of text, But I
didn't know anything about this. And even ashlandsource dot com,
which is my primary primary resource for it, they didn't

(02:59):
publish any thing, it looks like, until yesterday or maybe
Sunday night, right, So I don't have any of this
information that she's about to hopefully give us exclusively.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
So now my Mapleton insider will tell me.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
So on Friday, everyone thought at first it was a
gas leak, right, And at first they were like, oh,
there's thirty kids being evacuated.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Right, and there is.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
The whole school was evacuated.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yes, So the middle school and high school are connected,
so it's like the whole Mapleton campus. So K through
five is like down the hill, okay, And so they
weren't evacuated, right, but only the middle school.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
In high school, well, a lot of students were evacuating
their their innards because you had a lot of people
who were sick and throwing up. Dude, they brought in
the fire department, which I'm guessing is like two people.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
It is. It's volunteer, right, Yes, all of the local
fire departments are all volunteer. Right. We had I think
I read that there was like seven different fire departments
from all over different counties.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, yeah, that's a lot, Elliott, it is.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It is the But they came in, Diane. They tested
They don't know what it is. They have no idea.
They tested water samples, Diane, no idea, nothing. They tested
the building for potential chemical contamination while also investigating possible
commonalities that including but not limited to food, water, air,

(04:28):
building location, and transportation. Nothing came back to show a
link as to why everybody would get sick. And then obviously,
yet this goes back to Friday, right, because Kristen was
asking Tyler.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
So they were like, schools closed on Monday.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
On Monday, will update and let everybody know if we
have school on Tuesday. Well, they have school today, but
you know what, they don't have any answers. So there
was somebody in Ashland who was like I ain't send
my kid. So your child isn't going back to.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
School, I said, I'm looking at the comments. Oh they
tested everything.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Absolutely, they were testing the vomit.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
And many people are like, oh, my son will not
her daughter will not be attending that, so they know
what's going to know why so many students became ill.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I was clicking on a link and they were like,
my child is not going back to that school.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't know what that accent.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
They tested the t they went through all the.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Trash, all the trash. Absolutely, they checked.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
All the surveillance cameras.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Surveillance for what to see if somebody was like contaminating.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Planted something, maybe because the fish thing.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh wait, what was that fishy? Fishy? I ain't send
my child.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yes, none of.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
The teachers or staff were affected by whatever happened. It
was only the.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Kids that's on. Yes, forty three kids, but no adults.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
And we think Elliott's pretending to be sick to seem young.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Where's this mister, but why would why would no adults
get sick or were they told don't say anything.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Like I imagine this rocks Mapleton.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
H Yeah, absolutely, well, I got volunteers coming from all over, Diane.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
My children aren't going back. The answers. Answers is spelled
in correctly.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Oh, they must have gone to uh Hey exactly by
the way, big win at the horse show.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
They did it. I will say this. They did a
nice job for Lee Corso.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
They did.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
They did a very nice job for Lee Corso.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
He went six for six with his pick, Yes he did.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
He was on fire.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Lily Linda Camp writes, Oh do you know Lily Linda Camp.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
I know the Linda Camp.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
This is a joke, This is a joe. You cannot
tell us why nearly fifty children were escorted off the
property to the hospital. Then there is no reason why
you should be bringing children back into the building. Clear,
it's none of the issues above. So how the hell
are you supposed to know it won't happen again? Seriously,
do better?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Did they misspell anything?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
They just didn't worry about capitalization? That's okay.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
That are the Linda Camps like that? Though? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know them. Oh, I got stories to tell about
the Linda Camp.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes, Chris, you had your hand help though.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
So.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
The superintendent, mister Scott Smith, he was back in the day.
He was my gym teacher, and then he was a principal,
but now he is a superintendent. I think it was
I think it was Sunday he made a post or
like commented, go buck guys, you know before yesterday we

(07:42):
will let everyone know if you do feel unsafe to
send your kids, that's fine. But then the Ashland County
sheriff came out, uh yesterday and he was like, you know,
school resumes on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
So yeah, but I know a lot of people, including
the Linda Camps, who are not sending their children back
to school.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Do you know the Gosses Christen Dave, Yeah, the garage, Yeah,
buy you bakery? Yeah, spelled goss.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Here remember to school with of the kids. And then
her dad was my softball cost and my brother went
to school with one of the boys.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
So which one which one is Seth?

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Is that that's the older brother? He was a senior
in my freshman year.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh hell yeah, he writes from someone who went to
Mapleton and is reading all these comments, y'all are exploding
head emojis. Trust that your kids are going to a
good school where they care about them. Don't beat Karen's
send your kids to school. That's obviously today Tuesday. I

(08:46):
lived through worse things than this during my K through
twelve at Mapleton.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh what was so bad during the gooss Ethan's time?

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Oh no, so nothing from your time there stands.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
On And there was one room bad experience. We probably
should have had a day off of school because the
roads were snowy and icy, but the superintendent this was
my eighth grade year, and so Seth would have been
in high school.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
And so Seth Seth skidded coming into the parking lot
and he's still flustered.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
Actually, this is worse than that. So one of the
girls dropped her brother off at the middle school and
she got hit and died on her way to school
because the superintendent didn't close.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I ain't my quip band. Y'all are exploding head emojis
and kerns.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
But I will say yes, there is one person who
does nothing all day long, and he listens to the
scanners and all the teachers of Mapleton in Ashley County
are day long. He goes and post videos on the
Ashlan Chatter Facebook group and so fired up all the

(10:03):
parents because the parents that like one call when they
first called the one student to the nurse and then
they had, like the ambulance come. He reported on it
and started making it a huge deal. So nobody in
the school district knew what was going on.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
So he's like a vigilante.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yes, so there was one person, but this stupid guy
went and started blowing up socials right, And I only
noticed because all the teachers hate him. So all the
parents were angry because the school hadn't sent out a message.
I thought, what was going on? And then the ambulance
and hospital were contacting the kid's parents before the school.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Actually, but isn't that?

Speaker 1 (10:43):
But I mean that well, I mean, listen, you can't
stop the news, right, you can't stop the news.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's the Linda Camps the but that.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
But I mean, think about it in a small, little,
itty bitty town like that. Fifty kids get sick, Now
that's big and there's no answer and no adults. God's
sick Like that's weapons type stuff.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Do you know the Jamisons?

Speaker 4 (11:07):
I think one went to school with my sister and
my brother.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Will my child have a tumor in ten years from
this exposure? With all due respect, it should be closed
until you find out what happened. Well, Jamison's a little
alarmist from there and you can assure parents it will
not This is a continuation of that. With all due respect,

(11:31):
it should be closed and say, find out what happened
and you can assure parents won't happen again. I love
summer and getting to spend time with my kids, but
I also work and was happy when school started back.
But that in no way means I would send my
child into Jeffrey Dahmer's house just because they made it
out alive once before.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
By the way, No, that's my kind of I like that.
I like that. You gotta go you gotta go extreme
to prove a point. You gotta go extreme.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Our children deserve better, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Amen? Amen?

Speaker 1 (12:00):
I mean at this point, opening up Mapleton is like
opening up Dahmer's apartment.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
Well, on Friday or Saturday, one of the days, I
was talking to my family and they're like, well, maybe
it was like the cooks were you know, may have
poisoned some of the kids.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, they checked the food, They checked all the food.
Did they collect stool samples from the kids?

Speaker 4 (12:19):
I don't know, but they The first report was a
little after ten am, so lunch hadn't even been served yet.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Ah, they point out breakfast. They would have had breakfast though,
Oh so we weren't.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah. My sister's like, I don't know if they still
serve breakfast sometimes.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Did you have breakfast?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Sorry, And here's they do? Yeah, no, but they and
they should. I love breakfast at school. Breakfast at school
was awesome.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
So we're gonna to keep following this.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, this is good. This is good. But anyway, but
that's what got yes, Kristen.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well, there was also supposed to be a volleyball game
at two o'clock today. No, on Friday. Oh right, but
Cyrus was supposed to come down. I don't think they did.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well. No, my big Spiker was in the hospital.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
She had.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
No. No, but you have to yes, Well, we'll definitely
have to follow this. I mean, I'm kind of leaning
on Tyler to do that since we're back to a regular.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Work week and he'll be doing that.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
But that's what got me to They did say, and
this was now seth and the rest of them won't
appreciate it, but they do. They do credit that contaminant
evacuation drill from two years ago as what was good
about getting all the kids outside.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
But here's my question.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Several got sick inside, more got sick outside. So was
it something outside or did it just take longer for
it to get through their bodies from inside?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Well, these are answers all the parents would.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Like, especially the ones who are not setting their kids today.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I ain't standing my child. Would you put them into
Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment
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