Maryland High School Evacuated After Mysterious Bottle Is Found In Classroom Trash Can

Friday, May 11th 2007, 4:17 pm

By: News On 6

TIMONIUM, Md. (AP) _ A high school was evacuated Friday after firefighters found a bottle containing a suspicious liquid in a classroom, and a teacher was taken to a hospital for dizziness.

The bottle found in a trash can smelled like chlorine but the investigation was still continuing into whether it was intended to be an incendiary device, said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey.

``It was a bottle that contained a toxic substance,'' Toohey said.

Police said a chemistry lab, a bathroom and a hallway at Dulaney High School in a suburb of Baltimore were affected.

The ill teacher was taken to a local hospital, Sgt. John Young of the Baltimore County Police Department said. No other injuries were reported.

The fire department's hazardous materials team and members of the county police bomb squad were on the scene as a precaution, Jones said.

The incident was reported just before 8 a.m., Young said. The school's 1,850 students were allowed to return to the building around 11 a.m.