Mar, 03 2008 - 10:40 PM
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - East Vancouver's oldest school may not be salvageable. So says a School Board Trustee following a bad fire over the weekend.
The two-alarm blaze at the Carleton Elementary Schoolhouse early Sunday morning caused extensive to the wood-frame building.
Trustee Ken Denike says teachers will have a chance to see what they can salvage inside, if anything, but, "It doesn't look to me like there is an awful lot that can be salvaged unless it can be rebuilt."
As for rebuilding, "We aren't that far yet. We'll have to get the insurance adjustment and we've got to have our facilities people have a real close look at it but it doesn't look good."
The schoolhouse was built in 1896. Denike says it's east Vancouver's oldest school.
No word yet on the cause of the fire.
No comments:
Post a Comment