Fire at Tainui Intermediate School! Tuesday 14th of December 2010

A sofa seat (small couch is what they kept calling it) had caught on fire and was seriously smoldering inside the shed. The firemen had to use bolt cutters to cut of the paddocks to get the garage doors open. It looked like the metal was possibly buckling a bit with the heat, but it was an old garage. Once in side they found that only the couch was smoldering (one man said that under the door he could see flames).

My children often played at Tainui School before it was fenced off. On this day I was with them, Jimmy and Grace, and I noticed smoke coming out of the school garage/shed and called 111. 
A woman who lived at the back of the school said that she called them as well.

The fire was complicated with the discovery of gas bottles inside. But all went well and no one was hurt. The Fire cr3ew did a good job sorting it all out.

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