FIRE DAMAGES CHIME OFFICES CHARTER SCHOOL'S CLASSES WILL GO ON AS SCHEDULED.Byline: Susan SUSAN Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating Nucleus SUSAN Sub Saharan African Network SUSAN Smart Ultrasonic System for Aircraft NDE Abram Staff Writer An early morning electrical fire heavily damaged administrative offices at CHIME charter school, but summer classes will go on as scheduled, officials said Wednesday. The 5 a.m. blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. caused an estimated $110,000 damage to the campus in the 19700 block of Collier Street. Sparked by computer equipment in a storage area, it destroyed the roof and damaged the principal's office, another office that houses technical equipment used by disabled children and file cabinets containing school records, officials said. ``It's going to take an enormous amount of staff time to re-create student files,'' Principal Julie Fabrocini said said. ``We are receiving 70 new students this year and we were in the process of gathering immunization immunization: see immunity; vaccination. records. ``But we can put this in perspective. No one was hurt. We're amazingly lucky the plant manager was here.'' The plant manager, Yolanda Keymolent, called 911 just after 5 a.m. when she saw flames atop the 1950s-era brick administration building. Keymolent, whose shift starts at 6 a.m., said she likes to get to work early, to get a head start on the day. ``I pulled in and saw the flames and grabbed my cell,'' Keymolent said. ``The firefighters said if I had gotten here at 5:30, the building would have been burned to the ground.'' CHIME was named Charter School of the Year in January during the California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). Charter School Association's 12th annual conference in Pasadena. CHIME opened as a charter elementary school elementary school: see school. four years ago, extending a California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , program that integrates special education and regular education preschool and kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be students. About 70 children were enrolled when the school opened. Enrollment has since grown to 240 children from 27 different ZIP codes zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , Fabrocini said. Special education teacher Amy Hanreddy, who shares one of the damaged offices with two other instructors, said she had lost precious memories in the blaze. ``Everything I've collected from students over the past five years,'' she said. ``Everything inside is all black.'' Susan Abram, (818) 713-36645 susan.abram(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, map Photo: CHIME elementary school teacher Shawna Draxton looks at a room damaged Wednesday morning by an electrical fire. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer Map: CHIME charter school fire Daily News |
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