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Smoke forces evacuation at West Forsyth High
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Published: December 2, 2008
A classroom building at West Forsyth High School was evacuated this morning after heavy smoke poured into some of the rooms.
Duncan Memory, a 10th-grade English teacher, said he was in his classroom shortly before 9 a.m. when he noticed an odor of something burning, and soon after that the room started filling up with smoke.
"It went from a smell to a visual," Memory said. "It happened very fast."
Memory said he went into the hallway, where he noticed that two other classrooms and a workroom were also filling with smoke. That's when he pulled a fire alarm in the hallway.
The students and staff in the building — the only two-story classroom building on campus — were evacuated into the school's gym.
Clemmons Fire Chief Jerry Brooks said the smoke came from a malfunction in a fan motor in the building's heating and cooling system.
No one was injured, Brooks said.
Principal Kurt Telford said once the alarm was sounded people moved quickly to follow the fire evacuation plan.
"The staff and the kids did a great job," he said.
No other classrooms were evacuated.
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