| Show I i t d A S VI I t- t 4 i V 4 b- b 4 p y 41 Tribune Telegram State Slate Service Photo School Official Views Fire Damage I Sur e Surveying eying in debris In damaging blaze In classroom I at Central Utah Vocational school is Wilson Vilson W. W I Soren Sorensen en superintendent Firemen at Provo were I able ahle to remove remo some equipment hut loss probably III exceed Low water pressure hampered I efforts of firemen ln cold morning air Trade School Blaze Razes Classroom Special to The Telegram PROVO Jan 5 An 5 An early morning morning morning morn morn- ing fire Wednesday completely de destroyed destroyed destroyed de- de a central Utah vocational school classroom building causing causing causing caus caus- ing ing- losses estimated at between and it tt was re reported reported reported re- re ported by V Wilson i Iso n V. W. Sorensen school superintendent Fire Fie vas was vas a discovered In in the frame structure at 11 1155 55 pm p.m. Tuesday by night watchman Clarence Brereton Fire Chief Lloyd B. B Dickson re reported reported reported re- re ported his men had the blaze under control within 30 minutes but the fire fighters' fighters work was seriously hampered by low water pressure and the fire was not declared safely safely safely safe safe- ly out until after 3 am a.m. Fire Lt Dean was overcome by smoke and was forced to leave the scene He was given oxygen and was under a physicians physician's physicians physician's physicians physician's cian's care The building bUilding- was as one of 15 former former former for for- mer C C C barracks on the old Utah county fair grounds which have been taken over and used as educational facilities by bv the state vocational education office The structure was being used for in instruction instruction instruction in- in in electronics industrial electricity and radio Equipment of considerable value was housed in the building building- and none could be taken out Luckily however the most valuable single piece a Diesel generator was vas undamaged by bythe the flames II It Itis Itis is located in an isolated isolate wing wing- of the building building- which firemen succeeded succeeded suc sue in isolating from the worst of the blaze An earlier fire had been detected by students attending a night class and was extinguished by them It started whew an overheated stove stovepipe stovepipe stovepipe pipe Ignited ceiling materials Chief Dickson surmised that the later blaze had originated at the same source although Supt Sorensen Sorensen Sorensen Sor- Sor ensen explained the s toe stove t to o V e had hac been allowed to go out after the earlier fire From 50 to 75 students had been using the building but doubling up with rith other classes will avert interruption interruption interruption inter inter- of school work the superIntendent superintendent superintendent super super- said Despite other damage considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable equipment was saved by firemen who ho managed manag-ed to curb the flames lames around certain machines it was learned |
