THE SCHOOL BURNED DOWN!

.........well, a part of it did anyway. The point is I lived to see the day the school caught fire. Sounds weird, I know. But everyone admits that this has been THE most exciting day in school ever. Seriously.

It all started when the "after-recess-bell" rang. I was talking to K about something at the moment when we realised that there was something different about the bell. Not only was it long, it had this high-pitched sound. B started pretending to be in a panic. It was quite funny. Kelly was like " Flase alarm-lah!" Then we heard it. See, I sort of "predicted" that the day The school actually caught fire, Pn Chong's voice would be heard in the PA system. Sure enough, we could hear her voice : " Semua murid-murid, sila kosongkan bangunan sekolah secepat mungkin." I looked at Kelly, we walked out of class and we saw the smoke. At the corner of Block A, thick black smoke was coming out of the room where the main switch was kept. I was so nervous yet excited! Teachers were running around telling students to evacuate to the hall immediately. The smoke was getting thicker and thicker and the smell was so strong. And my class is 2 blocks away! So the smoke must have been really thick. And since the school hall is a seperate building, it made sense to go there.

Nobody wanted to stay at the hall though, because 10 minutes later the firemen arrived! This is where the excitement begins. I managed to see a fireman "jump-off" the truck, grab the hose and run towards the fire. It was so funny! Kinda like in the cartoons. Everyone was clapping and cheering when the fireman ran into the building. Then i went around finding friends to share experiences. One friend was "jumping" around the school going: Did you see the fire! Did you! DID YOU! Another friend was going around saying: YOU'RE ALIVE! to every friend she saw. Then I met J. She was in the library when the whole scenario started. She thought it was a false alarm too. She was typing stuff in to the computer when a prefect came to tell her to go to the hall. It was kinda important that she finish the work so she was like: OK-lah! Let me at least save this first. When she saw the smoke she was like OMG! I'm just below it. ( the library is just below the area that caught fire)

And then when the firemen came back everyone clapped and cheered again. lol. Then Block C & B classes were asked to line up and go back to class.. Block A students however had to go somewhere else. Where exactly I'm not sure. I just know they were not allowed to go back to their classes. No one is sure what triggered the "fire". There are 3 guesses:

(i) The main switch got overloaded and 'exploded"
(ii)Short-circuit
(iii) Someone who was smoking threw the cigarette there.

Many people ruled out (i) and (ii) 'cause if either happened there wouldn't be any electricity in the school. So that leaves us with (iii). Apparently they have already rounded up a few suspects. There was a last minute spot-check to see if any "evidence" could be found. A few lighters were found......... So now there's an investigation going on. Whoever did it is stupid in my opinion. I'll post a few pictures that were taken on my next post! :)