School fire is tackled
Wednesday 7th April 2010, 1:39PM BST.
More than 50 firefighters today battled a blaze which broke out in the roof of a Telford school.
They even managed to rescue pupils’ artwork from a nearby classroom during the incident at Thomas Telford School in Old Park just after 8.30am.
The alarm was raised by a cyclist riding near the school who saw smoke billowing from a main building at 8.40am.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
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