Fire Causes Damage to 2 Classrooms at Fullerton’s Orangethorpe School
Fire gutted a classroom at Orangethorpe Elementary School on Tuesday night and damaged another one.
A passing driver reported the fire at 7:49 p.m. in a kindergarten classroom on the northeast side of the school, at 1400 S. Brookhurst St.
Firefighters worked about 20 minutes to extinguish the blaze. School was closed for summer vacation, and no one was injured, Fullerton Fire Capt. Terry Stringham said. The cause is under investigation.
It was the third fire at the school in the past decade, Principal Patrick Backus said. One was caused by arson and the other by an electrical malfunction, he said.
Backus said he spoke to the teachers whose classrooms were affected and they were “crestfallen, very, very sad.”
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