Ebba Westberg

High school class stuck in a dangerous fire

A High school class got stuck in a fire at the eastern high school. The youths had English, when the fire alarm went on and they realized that the door was jammed.

The class was taking a test and was just finishing up when the fire alarm started. Jessica Thompson (17) was closest to the door and tried to get out but soon she realized that the door had jammed. Many of them tried to break the door with kicks and pushes but the enormous door was too heavy. The classroom was located on the third floor so they couldn’t jump out of the windows without increasing the risk of getting seriously injured.

   “The panic started to spread among us” Jessica told me “we were locked up in a fire and couldn’t get out”. The class was locked up for 2 hours before the rest of the school had been counted and they had found out that they missed one class. After that the firemen cooperated with the teachers to locate the missing class and get them out safely with the help of the ladder.  The firemen had to face concussions and other injuries when they came to the youth’s rescue.  Currently the class is recovering from the trauma and doing better.

Despite it all went good the complaints from the parents has bas been many. The parents also demand an overview of all the doors in the school to cover that this tragedy never happens again.  And they strictly want the school to fast get on with the refurbishing, so their kids may go back to normal.

The whole provincial town is shaken by the incident but since all the youths are doing well we all can start to breathe again.