St Joseph School Burning
At around 10:00 Eric came home from getting gas for the boat and told me St. Joseph School was on fire so I went to have a look and this is the picture I took in order from 10:30pm to 12:30am.
10:30 alot of smoke
11:00 pm fire starts to grow
11:30 Fire pretty much burning on its own.
The fire burned all night and destroyed the whole section of the school. At 8 when I went to work they were still pouring water on it and it was still smoking. They have confirmed it was arson and that it started under the structure and spread into the floor and walls very quickly. They had a hard time getting at the fire so they used back hoe's (you can see them in the first picture) to tear the building down. That was when the flames started again. It sounder like they might have called the water bomber in to drop water on it but I'm not sure.
posted by Laurie @ 1:14 a.m.
4 Comments:
At 10:14 a.m.,
Colleen said…
That's crazy, Laurie! Mark went and watched it but these are the first pictures I've seen. A friend that works at the paper was telling me yesterday that it was still burning in the walls and still hadn't been put out yet! What a tragedy. I'm glad no one was hurt.
At 8:33 p.m.,
Monika said…
Oh wow, I'm just checking in from Winnipeg and was shocked to see this!!!! Hope you guys are all doing well and I'll see you next week.
At 10:01 p.m.,
Talena said…
Blogger must have eaten my comment from earlier. Sigh.
I asked "Who would burn a school? Unless it was a kid who really didn't like math..."
At 12:21 a.m.,
Laurie said…
They haven't made any announcement if they caught the person(s) responsible bu the rumour is it was 2 kids around 11 or 12. If so I don't think they thought it would get so big.
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