Sunday electrical fire damages Bains Elementary classroom
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An electrical fire caused heavy smoke damage Sunday night to a fourth-grade classroom at Bains Elementary School north of St. Francisville.
Tommy Boyett, chief of West Feliciana Parish Fire Protection District 1, said the fire originated in the 220-volt receptacle and plug for a through-the-wall air conditioning unit, but “more or less extinguished itself” when a circuit breaker tripped and cut power to the receptacle.
Schools Superintendent Lloyd Lindsey said classes in the fourth-grade wing were shifted to other areas of the school Monday while Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate trusties who do maintenance work for the school district cleaned up the damaged classroom, hallway and other rooms.
Boyett said the burning plastic and insulation produced thick smoke that left soot throughout the classroom. Smoke also entered the hallway for the affected wing.
The parish Fire Department was notified of the blaze about 9 p.m. by the school’s fire-alarm monitoring company, a West Feliciana Parish sheriff’s deputy on night security duty and teachers who were working late in their own classrooms, Boyett said.
St. Francisville Fire Department and parish Emergency Medical Services personnel also responded to the alarm.
Lindsey said the inmate crew, which is supervised by a corrections officer, washed down walls and floors with disinfectants and helped ventilate the classrooms.
Officials plan to reopen other classrooms in the wing today, but students in the damaged classroom will be moved to a science lab, Lindsey said.
The affected students receive extra instruction because they show academic promise in one or more areas, Lindsey said.
Tommy Boyett, chief of West Feliciana Parish Fire Protection District 1, said the fire originated in the 220-volt receptacle and plug for a through-the-wall air conditioning unit, but “more or less extinguished itself” when a circuit breaker tripped and cut power to the receptacle.
Schools Superintendent Lloyd Lindsey said classes in the fourth-grade wing were shifted to other areas of the school Monday while Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate trusties who do maintenance work for the school district cleaned up the damaged classroom, hallway and other rooms.
Boyett said the burning plastic and insulation produced thick smoke that left soot throughout the classroom. Smoke also entered the hallway for the affected wing.
The parish Fire Department was notified of the blaze about 9 p.m. by the school’s fire-alarm monitoring company, a West Feliciana Parish sheriff’s deputy on night security duty and teachers who were working late in their own classrooms, Boyett said.
St. Francisville Fire Department and parish Emergency Medical Services personnel also responded to the alarm.
Lindsey said the inmate crew, which is supervised by a corrections officer, washed down walls and floors with disinfectants and helped ventilate the classrooms.
Officials plan to reopen other classrooms in the wing today, but students in the damaged classroom will be moved to a science lab, Lindsey said.
The affected students receive extra instruction because they show academic promise in one or more areas, Lindsey said.
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