FIRE AT SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19731, 23 September 1929, Page 10

FIRE AT SCHOOL.

WORK OP INCENDIARIST. At 7.52 p.m. 011 Saturday, the Central Fire Brigade were ca'led to the Addington School, where a fire had been noticed in one of the dressing sheds on the ground floor of the pavilion in the swimming-bath enclosure. The pavilion is a two-storied bui'ding with bathers' dressing rooms on the ground floor, and ordinary rooms up above. The dressing rooms are of the usual type, with small doors reaching to within about a foot and a-half of the floor, and in the second room from the end, situated on the east side, Are had been started under the seat. A sack had evidently beeu soaked in kero sene, and this, together with some paper, was lighted. The walls of the dressing room had been splashed with the remainder of the kerosene. Two lemonade bottles, which had contained the kerosene, were found by the brigade. The fire was first noticed by some members of the Committee, who wore present at a social function, which was being held at the school, roughly fifty yard' away from where the fir > started. They happened to be outside the building and noticed the light. When they reached the dressing room the fire could not have been going for more than about a minute or two, and it is therefore supposed that whoever was responsible for the blaze escaped from the pavilion over a fence about six feet high on the side away from the school, as otherwise he would have had to use the entrance facing the school. The damag' was trifline, on'v th n seat in the dressing-room being scorched, but the fire was bo placed that if it had not been noticed quite so early the whole place would have been in danger.