Today's excitement....

MEBANE —
Lint and dust build up in a heating unit is what caused a fire that
destroyed a mobile classroom at South Mebane Elementary School Monday
morning.
When third-grade teacher Shawn Dixon arrived at her
classroom at 7:30 Monday morning, she smelled a strange odor but didn’t
see anything. At about 9 a.m., she took her class of about 20 students
to the library and then returned to the classroom alone 10 minutes
later, said Chief Bob Louis of the Mebane Fire Department.
“When she went back in the classroom, she heard a
popping sound above her head and saw flames at the rear of the
classroom near the furnace,” Louis said.
Dixon notified the front office, the fire
department was called and the fire alarm was pulled. When Louis arrived
at the school at 600 S. Third St., students and teachers were already
evacuated. The fire was contained to one of two mobile units located in
the back near the bus parking lot, Louis said. There are a total of
four mobile classrooms at the school
“We made an attack through the front door and over
half the unit’s roof line was involved,” Louis said. “It took about 10
minutes to get it knocked down.”
The mobile unit, which was valued at about $26,000,
was destroyed. There was about $6,000 worth of items inside that were
damaged from water, heat and smoke. Louis said that the lint and dust
built up on a heat strip in the heating/air-conditioning unit is what
caused the blaze.
No one was injured.
The 20 students were relocated to the media center
Monday. The class will move to a literacy remediation classroom Tuesday
until other arrangements can be made, said Jenny Faulkner, spokeswoman
for Alamance-Burlington School System.
School staff members were sorting through the classroom Monday afternoon, trying to salvage what was left.
“Some of the book bags and jackets in the classroom
at the time are good and some are not,” Faulkner said. “Some textbooks
look good.”
Rebecca Royal, the school’s principal, notified
parents of the fire immediately, and members of the parent teacher
organization are already reaching out to businesses to replace the lost
supplies.
Faulkner said the heat is turned off on the weekends.
“It could have easily happened over the weekend if
the heat had been running,” she said. “… It really was a fortunate
situation. The students were not in the classroom. The teacher was
alert and reacted quickly.”
Haw River Fire Department assisted Mebane firefighters.

This was an email that I received today, telling us what happened at school.  We are so lucky and proud  of our school.  When I received my call this morning I begin to panic, I am so thankful how they do things now days. 

One other note...Aubrey brought home a worm today from school.  She was so excited, she wanted to give it a new home where she could visit it anytime she wanted.  But, first she would give it a little shower in the sink...so she ran in bathed the worm and took it outside to her flower garden.  Only my child, let's see if it ends up on her prayer chain.