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Fire Destroys Classroom at Gwinnett County School

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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- A fire gutted a modular classroom at a Gwinnett County elementary school early Saturday morning.

According to Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Captain Tommy Rutledge, someone passing by Cedar Hill Elementary School a little before 3:30 a.m. saw the fire and called 911. Fire crews arrived to find one of the trailers on fire.  It took firefighters a half hour to get the fire under control.

Fire investigators said that the fire completely destroyed one classroom trailer and caused damage to the outside of another trailer nearby. They said that fire does not appear suspicious and are looking at it possibly starting near the heating unit.

The classrooms houses second-grade students at the school. School officials said those students will be relocated to other portable classrooms already on site.

 



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A fire guts a portable classroom at Cedar Hill Elementary School during the early morning hours of Saturday, November 14, 2009. (Tommy Rutledge/Gwinnett Fire)

Fire investigators search for the cause of an early morning fire at Cedar Hill Elementary School on Saturday, November 14, 2009. (Tommy Rutledge/Gwinnett Fire)

An early morning fire destroys one classroom and damages the outside of another at Cedar Hill Elementary School on Saturday, November 14, 2009. (Tommy Rutledge/Gwinnett Fire)

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