A trainer and a police officer helped extinguish a hearth at Pentucket Regional Excessive Faculty in West Newbury, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon.
Faculty officers mentioned the incident has left the standing of courses on the center/highschool on Monday in query and they’ll announce a choice by Sunday.
Shortly earlier than 3 p.m. Saturday, the West Newbury Fireplace Division responded to a hearth alarm activation on the faculty indicating a hearth within the constructing. After they arrived, firefighters discovered a hearth behind the varsity auditorium.
A West Newbury police officer and a Pentucket trainer who was working with the varsity’s robotics group elsewhere within the constructing put out the hearth utilizing a hearth extinguisher. Firefighters additionally helped water down scorching spots to guarantee that the hearth was absolutely extinguished. Crews then labored to ventilate the constructing to take away any remaining smoke.
About 20 college students from the robotics group have been within the constructing on the time of the hearth. They have been evacuated and launched to their households.
Nobody was injured.
“A choice on whether or not Faculty will likely be held on Monday on the center/highschool will likely be decided by Sunday night,” Assistant Superintendent Brent Conway mentioned in a press release. “Info will likely be posted on the faculties web site, www.prsd.org.”
Mutual support was supplied by the Groveland, Newbury, Merrimac, and Georgetown hearth departments and Atlantic Ambulance. The Newbury Fireplace Division coated West Newbury throughout the incident.
The West Newbury constructing and electrical inspectors and the Massachusetts State Fireplace Marshal’s Workplace additionally responded to the scene.
The origin and reason behind the hearth stay beneath investigation by the West Newbury police and hearth departments, the Groveland Fireplace Division and the State Fireplace Marshal’s Workplace. However a preliminary investigation on the scene signifies that the hearth was unintentional and attributable to work being performed on the auditorium stage.
