CT school cancels classes after squirrel causes power outage and fire

A schoolhouse successful West Haven canceled classes connected Friday aft an incidental with a squirrel led to a occurrence and powerfulness outage successful the building.

May V. Carrigan Intermediate School mislaid powerfulness connected Thursday greeting erstwhile a squirrel came into interaction with a powerfulness enactment and landed connected a transformer, which led to a tiny occurrence successful an unused country of the school, West Haven Public Schools said successful a statement. Members of the West Haven Fire Department responded to grip the fire.

According to schoolhouse officials, the gathering was evacuated. The schoolhouse teaches grades 5 and 6.

“At nary clip was determination immoderate menace to the information of students oregon staff. Everyone is harmless and accounted for,” the territory said.

The schoolhouse had nary powerfulness instantly pursuing the occurrence due to the fact that of a tripped breaker that was connected to a generator, schoolhouse officials said. The building’s facilities squad tried resetting the breaker, and students and unit were allowed to reenter the school.

School officials said powerfulness to the 3rd level was not restored aft the reset. Students were dismissed aboriginal for the time earlier the territory announced that classes would beryllium canceled connected Friday.

A caller circuit breaker is expected to beryllium installed implicit the weekend. Classes are expected to resume arsenic mean connected Monday.