May 12, 2010

Kitchen fire forces school evacuation

       Students were evacuated from Center Grove Middle School North after a small kitchen fire Tuesday.  The fire started about noon when a substitute kitchen worker put two plastic food trays into a warmer that was designed to handle one tray, White River Fire Department spokesman Jim Engmark said. The trays were placed too close to the heat source, and paper on the trays caught on fire.  The worker put the fire out with an extinguisher before firefighters arrived, but students were cleared from the building at 202 N. Morgantown Road as a precaution, Engmark said.  The worker suffered some minor smoke inhalation but declined medical treatment. No one else was injured in the fire.  Johnson County Health Department inspectors shut down the kitchen to make sure that smoke and fire extinguisher particulate were cleaned from the kitchen, Engmark said. The kitchen should reopen today.  (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Journal)
 
    

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