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Curley School students learn why they have fire drills when actual fire breaks out

By adamg on Mon, 04/14/2014 - 2:50pm

The Curley School in Jamaica Plain was evacuated around 10 a.m. when a trash wheeled trash receptacle being stored in a stairway erupted in flames, the Boston Fire Department reports.

Students were evacuated without incident by the one-alarm fire, BFD spokesman Steve MacDonald said, adding they were allowed back in once the fire was out and the smoke evacuated. He said the cause is under investigation.

Neighborhoods: 
Jamaica Plain
Topics: 
Fire
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Curley School
Boston Public Schools


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Comments

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 04/14/2014 - 3:30pm.

They were storing WHAT in a stairway?

Hasn't this lesson been learned the hard way yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_the_Angels_School_fire

By ElizaLeila on Tue, 04/15/2014 - 12:48pm.

Using enclosed stairways for storage is all too common in many a municipal building. There appears to never be enough space. Then again, there's never enough time/money to go through and clear out unnecessary items (ie: get rid of files and other paperwork they are legally required to retain).

Trash receptacles in the stairway? Not surprised.

Is it a fire rated enclosed stairway as part of the means of egress? There should be a sprinkler at top and bottom, if the building is sprinklered at all. And yes, no storage allowed in there at all. Even if you build a little wall under that last run and call it a closet. Well, there are ways, but it needs to be a fire-rated separation.

By anon on Tue, 04/15/2014 - 10:00pm.

A trash wheeled trash receptacle???