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A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE STARTED IN A Portland, Oregon, elementary school Tuesday morning while the students were inside attending classes. The fire in the Marysville ES took hold quickly and spread up into the roof area. Everybody in the school, about 460 students and teachers, evacuated safely and orderly according to plan. There were two adults who suffered breathing problems from the smoke, however.
The fire response was immediately upgraded to three alarms and brought over 100 firefighters to the scene. The major part of the fire was in the kindergarten and 3rd-grade classrooms, but eventually about 1/3 of the building was destroyed.
KPTV
The Oregonian has a video report:
| Marysville Elementary Fire |
Damage is extensive and the school will be closed for a long time for repair. The wood-frame school was built in 1921 with fire safety in mind and was limited to one story with multiple doors on each side of the building.
KPTV has the STORY and several video files.
The Oregonian has an extensive story HERE.
The Associated Press provided this raw video that shows the FF’s doing a terrific job with a trench cut that does everything it’s supposed to:
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