SCHOOL BLAZE DAMAGE $80,000.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER -- A fire that started in a girls' restroom 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. caused an estimated $80,000 damage Tuesday at a Lancaster middle school. Authorities questioned two girls about the 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)]. , which gutted half of a modular restroom building at Endeavour Middle School's temporary campus. No one was in custody. Officials aren't sure whether the fire was set intentionally in·ten·tion·al adj. 1. Done deliberately; intended: an intentional slight. See Synonyms at voluntary. 2. Having to do with intention. , Assistant Principal Todd Coleman said. Firefighters had the fire out within minutes of arrival at the school in the 800 block of East Avenue K-2, Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La Capt. Darryl Dutton said. Whatever started the fire was consumed in the flames, but burn marks indicated that the fire started where school officials said the restroom trash can was, Dutton said. The fire cut short classes by about 30 minutes for Endeavour's 80 or so summer school students, Coleman said. The students evacuated e·vac·u·ate v. e·vac·u·at·ed, e·vac·u·at·ing, e·vac·u·ates v.tr. 1. a. To empty or remove the contents of. b. To create a vacuum in. 2. classrooms and waited on the school field while firefighters extinguished ex·tin·guish tr.v. ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es 1. To put out (a fire, for example); quench. 2. To put an end to (hopes, for example); destroy. See Synonyms at abolish. 3. the blaze. The fire started about 30 minutes before the 11 a.m. dismissal time, so the students were dismissed from the field. The students had a fire-drill practice Monday, Coleman said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Damage is shown inside a girls' restroom in the aftermath of a fire Tuesday at Endeavour Middle School in Lancaster. Damage was estimated at $80,000. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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