{"id":376747,"date":"2010-03-01T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/school-evacuated-after-locker-fire"},"modified":"2010-03-01T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T22:11:10","slug":"school-evacuated-after-locker-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376747","title":{"rendered":"School evacuated after locker fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Fire in a locker led to the evacuation of a Northwest Peoria school on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\nPeoria firefighters were called to Mark Bills School, 6001 N. Frostwood Parkway, about 1:50 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\nFire in a second-floor locker was quickly knocked down, first by school staff using a fire extinguisher and then by firefighters, Peoria Fire Department Division Chief Gary Van Voorhis said.<\/p>\n<p>\nAbout 250 students and school staff escaped safely from the District 150 school, Van Voorhis said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fire was confined to the one second-floor locker, but nearby lockers also were damaged by the extinguisher and water. <span id=\"more-21664\"><\/span>The second floor sustained some smoke damage, but firefighters were ventilating it with fans.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fire took place near the time school was dismissed for the day, and classes were expected to continue uninterrupted on Tuesday, Van Voorhis said.<\/p>\n<p>\nStudents with lockers on the second floor were not allowed back to their lockers to retrieve their coats on Monday, Van Voorhis said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe cause of the fire was being investigated.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/x285349045\/School-evacuated-after-locker-fire\" title=\"School evacuated after locker fire\" rel='nofollow'>Journal Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qOa5-6dEaE3D3njaPfMPJKrPCEs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qOa5-6dEaE3D3njaPfMPJKrPCEs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qOa5-6dEaE3D3njaPfMPJKrPCEs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qOa5-6dEaE3D3njaPfMPJKrPCEs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Jh96DCoQGKY:BvHhAVmTdwY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Jh96DCoQGKY:BvHhAVmTdwY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=Jh96DCoQGKY:BvHhAVmTdwY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=Jh96DCoQGKY:BvHhAVmTdwY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/Jh96DCoQGKY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire in a locker led to the evacuation of a Northwest Peoria school on Monday afternoon. Peoria firefighters were called to Mark Bills School, 6001 N. Frostwood Parkway, about 1:50 p.m. Monday. Fire in a second-floor locker was quickly knocked down, first by school staff using a fire extinguisher and then by firefighters, Peoria Fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}