Pleasant Grove Review | 1936-03-20 | Page 5 | Teachers Injured When Fire Escape Collapse

Teachers Injured When Fire Escape Collapses Miss . Betha Storrs of American Fork and Miss Thelma Walker of Pleasant Grove, narrowly escaped serious injury Tuesday afternoon when the fire-escape at the Alpine school gave; way. Miss Storrs and Miss Walker are teachers in the elementary ele-mentary grades at that school. The accident happened at about 2:30 in the afternoon. The recess period was over and the students were returning to their class rooms, the teachers taking the fire-escape way to save time in getting to the room. When eight feet from the ground a weather warped stringer gave way and the steps collapsed. Miss Walker received a number of broken ribs, Miss Storrs one rib torn from back. Both were badly bruised.