Crestmoor School Evacuated After Reports of Gas Smell

Crestmoor Elementary was evacuated this morning after reports of a gas smell, the second school to be evacuated in as many days near the site of last week's gas explosion and fire.

Students and staff were evacuated from the school—which is right on the other side of Crestmoor Canyon, near the neighborhood where the fire took place—after two teachers reported smelling gas in their classrooms at about 8:10am, said Cindy Emerson, the administrative assistant to the superintendent of the San Bruno Park School District.

Students from the school, which has 190 students and 11 staff, have been bused to Parkside Intermediate School, where parents have been told to pick up their children in the middle school's cafeteria.

Classes at Crestmoor have been canceled for the rest of the day, Emerson said, while PG&E crews continue to investigate the incident. So far the crews have not yet been able to determine the cause of the smell, said PG&E spokeswoman Cindy Pollard.

On Thursday, Portola Elementary was evacuated after a report of a possible gas leak. But the fire department later determined that the source of the smell came from the school's heater.

This is the fourth report of a gas leak in the Bay Area since yesterday. PG&E also responded to a school in San Francisco and a construction site in Oakland, where crews caused a leak when they damaged a gas pipeline.

Bay City News Service contributed to this report.