A concert at St. Paul Parish in Harvard Square was disrupted at approximately 7:40 p.m. Tuesday when attendees were taken ill, leading to eight people being treated for a nonlife-threatening condition on the scene and going to medical facilities for further evaluation.
The alarm led to an evacuation of the building at 29 Mount Auburn St., in the Riverside neighborhood where it meets Harvard Square, and those affected included children and teens who were having seizures, according to scanner reports.
But “approximately 70 other people … were not affected,” and fire companies did a “thorough investigation using several air sampling meters and results were negative,” said John Gelinas, media manager for the Cambridge Fire Department.
Professional Ambulance and Cambridge police also responded to the crisis at the parish at 29 Mount Auburn St., in the Riverside neighborhood where it meets Harvard Square, Gelinas said.
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