Friday, September 11, 2009
Fire damages KJ school dormitory; no one injured
A late-night fire damaged an unoccupied storage area in a school dormitory on the night before the teenage boys staying there departed for a four-week vacation.
Kiryas Joel Public Safety Director Moses Witriol said that a manager of UTA Mesitva of Kiryas Joel — a religious school attended by several hundred Satmar Hasidic boys, ages 16 and older — discovered a smoldering mattress on the first floor of the three-story building about midnight Wednesday.
All occupants were evacuated without injury as a blaze erupted, he said. Fire departments from surrounding communities responded to help Kiryas Joel firefighters with the fire, which was put under control in about an hour, Witriol said.
Witriol said the cause appeared to be electrical. Fire Chief Joshua Blumenthal couldn't be reached for comment.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090911/NEWS/909110349
Kiryas Joel Public Safety Director Moses Witriol said that a manager of UTA Mesitva of Kiryas Joel — a religious school attended by several hundred Satmar Hasidic boys, ages 16 and older — discovered a smoldering mattress on the first floor of the three-story building about midnight Wednesday.
All occupants were evacuated without injury as a blaze erupted, he said. Fire departments from surrounding communities responded to help Kiryas Joel firefighters with the fire, which was put under control in about an hour, Witriol said.
Witriol said the cause appeared to be electrical. Fire Chief Joshua Blumenthal couldn't be reached for comment.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090911/NEWS/909110349
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