By Ben Fractenberg and Patrick Hedlund
DNAinfo News Editor
FINANCIAL DISTRICT — A group of film students were taken to the hospital Friday after drinking from a Downtown school's water fountain that they claimed was spewing out unusually colored "blue" water.
Five students got sick after they drank from the fountain during a dance class at the New York Film Academy, inside Millennium High School at 75 Broad Street, FDNY Deputy Chief John Bley said.
They were transported to New York University Downtown Hospital, the FDNY said.
“A couple of them vomited, but they were fine when we arrived,” Bley added, noting that fluid from the air-conditioning system might have leaked into the fountain’s pipes.
The Fire Department’s HAZMAT unit tested the water flowing from the 12th-floor fountain and determined it safe following the incident, fire sources said. Firefighters did not see any blue water coming out of it.
An official with the city's Office of Emergency Management said the fountain's basin had some green discoloration, which may have made the water students were drinking appear blue.
Students in the class were between the ages of 14 to 17, said New York Film Academy Senior Director David Klein.
