Superintendent, Emergency Officials Commend School for Orderly Evacuation
Officials say the evacuation went as well as expected.
Faculty and staff at Colt Andrews School were put to the test on Monday afternoon when the building was forced to evacuate for a gas leak in the area. Emergency officials notified the school shortly after the gas leak was reported and Fire Chief Robert Martin said that the school was very quick to comply. "By the time I called for the evacuation they were all down Bradford Street already walking up" Martin said, noting that teachers and staff members wasted no time and walked students up the road to Bristol's First Congregational Church on the corner of Bradford and High Streets to await bus and parental pickup. "We didn't want to take any chances with the children." "They did an amazing job," said Melinda Thies, Superintendent of Schools…
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Tammy L Mojkowski
5:37 pm on Monday, October 24, 2011
Ok as a grandparent of a child at CA school. I would just like to say that I would first and foremost like to know I can count on her teachers to take her safety as thier first priority. There are alot of children at Colt Andrews and "what did you expect them to do? Have all the children wait inthe school with a gas leak in the area, while they called each and every parent or make sure youre … more ›