Crime & Safety
Fire in Restroom Clears Out Pleasantdale Elementary
Janitors helped put out the fire, but school evacuated by first-floor smoke.
A garbage can fire in a West Orange elementary school restroom resulted in the school having to be evacuated, West Orange fire officials said Thursday.
The fire, in the first-floor restroom of the Pleasantdale Elementary School on Pleasant Valley Way, started about 1:40 p.m., West Orange Fire Capt. Robert Dsurney said.
School janitors extinguished most of the fire with buckets of water and dragged the can outside before the fire department arrived, officials said.
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However, since smoke filled the first floor, the school was evacuated for about 20 minutes while firefighters vented the building, Dsurney said.
West Orange police are investigating.
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