BATHROOM BLAZE AT QUARTZ HILL HIGH CAUSES $30,000 IN DAMAGE.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer A fire that started in a boys bathroom caused $30,000 in damages Tuesday afternoon at Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). , fire officials said. The lunchtime fire burned a building that contains the boys bathroom, a girls bathroom and a cleaning supply closet Noun 1. supply closet - a closet for storing supplies closet, cupboard - a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space , but damaged no other school buildings no classrooms and no one was injured. ``Somebody smelled smoke coming from the bathroom,'' said Vice Principal Bernice Smith. ``As security went into the bathroom they found it smoldering smol·der also smoul·der intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame. 2. . When they opened the door, air went in and it just walloped.'' Fire officials said they consider the fire suspicious and will call in arson detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. to investigate. Students said they had heard the fire was started by someone smoking in the bathroom who tossed the cigarette into a trash can In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. . ``At this point, we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how it started,'' said Smith. ``I guess we'll be asking a lot of questions.'' When the fire broke out, students were shuffled to other areas of the campus as more than 40 firefighters worked to extinguish Extinguish Retire or pay off debt. the flames. For the remainder of the day, classes normally held in classrooms near the bathroom were conducted instead in the gymnasium. The fire destroyed a slogan painted by 1995 graduates on one exterior wall of the restroom building. `We are rock, we are roll, we have heart, we have soul, we are wild, we are live, we are the Class of 95,'' the painting reads. ``They left it as a memorial,'' said Smith. ``They (the class of '95) are going to be upset to find out what happened.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo:(1-2--color) Firefighters, left, work to extinguish a fire that broke out in the boys bathroom at Quartz Hill High School on Tuesday afternoon. Above, Quartz Hill students mill about and watch firefighters battle the blaze during a recess. (1) Bhavna Mistry/Daily News (2) Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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