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5-Alarm Fire Destroys Philadelphia Charter School
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PHILADELPHIA - A destructive fire has resulted in city school officials offering a shuttered school site for students of the Global Leadership Academy Charter School to use on a temporary basis.
The five-alarm fire was reported at the charter school, located along the 5000 block of Lancaster Avenue, through an alarm system shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday. It took nearly two hours for firefighters to bring it under control.
Officials said one firefighter was transported to a hospital for minor injuries during the course of the firefighting effort.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation Sunday.
As a result of the blaze, School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman contacted the school’s principal, Naomi Johnson-Booker, and offered the W.S. Peirce School site at 2400 Christian St., as a temporary location so as to allow for classes to continue as early as Monday for the students of the burned charter school.
Reprinted with Permission
PHILADELPHIA - A destructive fire has resulted in city school officials offering a shuttered school site for students of the Global Leadership Academy Charter School to use on a temporary basis.
The five-alarm fire was reported at the charter school, located along the 5000 block of Lancaster Avenue, through an alarm system shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday. It took nearly two hours for firefighters to bring it under control.
Officials said one firefighter was transported to a hospital for minor injuries during the course of the firefighting effort.
The cause of the fire remained under investigation Sunday.
As a result of the blaze, School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman contacted the school’s principal, Naomi Johnson-Booker, and offered the W.S. Peirce School site at 2400 Christian St., as a temporary location so as to allow for classes to continue as early as Monday for the students of the burned charter school.
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