Excerpt post with permission of pipenozzle.com

Yes, Collinwood (1908) and Our Lady of Angels (1958) happened a long time ago, but in May 2012, three teenage boys mimicked a youtube.com video and set fire to hand sanitizer on a desktop in a Woodburn High Schoolcomputer room and tried to put it out with paper towels. All students evacuated the building safely to a playing field, and the Salem, Oregon fire department, four alarms and a lot of mutual aid later, had the conflagration under control. On 20 November 2013, fire and heavy smoke at William Davies Middle School in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, drove students and staff from the building. A student set the fire in a bathroom stall. But those Woodburn and Hamilton Township students lived because children died in school fires again and again in the first half of the 20th Century until and including the Our Lady of Angels (OLA) school burned in Chicago in 1958 and real school fire safety reform began to take place.  A National Fire Protection Association official at the time was not surprised by the OLA disaster. Not at all. He remembered history. He rejected willful ignorance.