By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The practice burn at the Seventh Day Adventist School outside Chehalis for tomorrow has been called off, but firefighters will still be on the scene helping demolish the building.
Lewis County Fire District 6 Chief Bud Goodwillie said this evening that because of logistics and safety, some 50 firefighters who planned to train tomorrow, won’t be able to conduct any interior “sets”.
Goodwillie said they discovered issues with the construction, including several voids inside the building that mean if they set the school on fire, it could easily get away from them.
The school had offered the structure along the 2100 block of South Scheuber Road to Fire District 6, as it plans to build a new school on the site, according to Goodwillie.
He’s disappointed about the lost opportunity to practice.
However, the contractor will be using excavators and bulldozer, beginning tonight, to tear the school down. And firefighters will be there tomorrow to help, Goodwillie said.
It will be a lot of hard work still, and firefighters will be burning the remnants of the school in burn piles starting about 9:30 tomorrow morning, according to Goodwillie.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter