Students Sickened By Maintenance Work At Manteca School

MANTECA (CBS13) — A dozen students and an adult were sickened at a school in Manteca on Wednesday after fumes from maintenance work made it into the classroom.
Twelve-year-old James is doing better now, but earlier in the day he was one of 12 students who had headaches and trouble breathing after taking in strong fumes in his seventh-grade class.
“I was crying quite a bit and I had a headache,” he said.
The school alerted parents as medical aid was brought in.
“My stomach