LOCAL SCHOOL FIRE

Last night our crew spent several hours as a watching party after the fire (what we call a "fire duty").
The fire was several classrooms of one of the local schools.
In this picture you can see the chairs on the tables, how they are left at night, the degree of disfigurement of the plastic chairs shows you the direction in which the fire was, the closer to the fire the more they have melted.
Most of the damage in this room is from super heated gases and smoke coming from the fire that was in a room to my left and slightly behind me.
The air conditioning duct has the paint peeling off of it and the fluorescent lights have melted ends, such was the heat.
This room hasn't really been burning but within 2 to 3 minutes would have been totally engulfed if not for the work of the fire fighters.
The white stuff on the floor on the left is plaster board from the adjoining wall of this room and the room on fire. The door would have been open allowing the heat and smoke into this room.
Unfortunately other parts of the school recieved more extensive damage.
At one stage one part of the roof which had collapsed and was now unsecured had blown back over itself in the high wind gusts that we experienced during this night. Just another hazard to look out for.