Two youth taken into custody following Feb. 21 Pleasantdale Elementary School restroom fire.
West Orange police reported two fifth graders at Pleasantdale Elementary School were taken into custody following a bathroom fire on Feb. 21. According to the report, the boys, whose names were not released because of their ages, were transported to headquarters by the juvenile aid bureau following the incident. The fire, in the first-floor boys' restroom of the elementary school on Pleasant Valley Way, started about 1:40 p.m., West Orange Fire Capt. Robert Dsurney said. It is believed the fire started when paper towels inside a 50-gallon garbage can caught fire, police said. However, since smoke filled the first floor, the school was evacuated for about 20 minutes while firefighters vented the building, Dsurney said. School janitors …
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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. 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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1:27 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
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