Fire service called to Hull school
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a school in west Hull this morning.
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service sent two engines to Thoresby Primary School, off Princes Avenue.
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Thoresby Primary School in west Hull
When the emergency crews arrived, they were told there had been an electrical fault on a light fitting.
The school caretaker had already dealt with the fault by the time the engines arrived.
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The fire service was called to the school at 9.15am.
Gemma Hayat, 28, was taking her children to school when the fire engines arrived.
Her daughters Sophia, four, and Alisha, six, were told to wait outside.
Ms Hayat said: “It was caused by a light bulb in a year five or six classroom.
“As soon as the whistle went for children to go in, the teachers came out.
“It was a bit of a shock.”
8 Comments
by susieb10
Friday, March 08 2013, 9:16AM
“Don't understand why this is in the news at all. Who even cares if the school caretaker changed a lightbulb? The caretaker cut the grass at my daughters school yesterday and took stuff over from their old school building to their new school. That isn't in my local newspaper. I am sure the Hull Daily Mail can find more worthy stories to publish than this rubbish”
by r3fresh
Thursday, March 07 2013, 8:38PM
“@fairway1 you don't take chances with schools. especially the victorian ones.”
by 23041642
Thursday, March 07 2013, 8:13PM
“Bet that spoilt their game of volleyball/charity car washing/weight training”
by ajw82
Thursday, March 07 2013, 7:27PM
“Why is this in the news???”
by Mickinull
Thursday, March 07 2013, 5:18PM
“How many firefighters does it take to change a lightbulb?”
by Ren_Tiger
Thursday, March 07 2013, 4:34PM
“WHAT AN EXCITING STORY!”
by fairway1
Thursday, March 07 2013, 3:53PM
“I hope the school have apologised to the Fire Brigade for wasting their time and I hope the brigade will send the school the bill for the call out.
Those two appliances could well have been needed at a real, life threatening emergency somewhere and should not have been sent out to deal with nothing more than a faulty electrical light fitting.”
by Strangley
Thursday, March 07 2013, 2:53PM
“"When the emergency crews arrived, they were told there had been an electrical fault on a light fitting. The school caretaker had already dealt with the fault by the time the engines arrived."
He changed the bulb then?”