21 Tennessee students hospitalized with heat illness during school bomb threat evacuation

At least 21 students were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses, including three reported in critical condition, after Carter Middle School in Knoxville, Tennessee, was evacuated Friday because of a threatening message found on a bathroom wall. Students were moved to a nearby high school’s football field while sheriff’s deputies and bomb-detection dogs searched the building, and they remained outside for roughly an hour as temperatures reached the mid- to upper 90s. Some students were treated in a field house or at the scene, while others received hospital care, including intravenous fluids. School officials said students were provided water and shade and that nurses and emergency crews treated those who became ill; the district plans to review its evacuation procedures for extreme heat. Juvenile detectives are investigating the threat, and reports differed on the number of students transported to hospitals, with one account citing 14 before later updates put the total at 21.