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December 18, 2007

Broken water pipe closes Mount Pleasant High School

PROVIDENCE -- Mount Pleasant High School closed at 1:30 p.m. today after a broken pipe set off the fire alarms and sent water gushing along the first and second floors.

Late this afternoon, school officials were discussing whether to open school tomorrow morning.

According to spokeswoman Christina O’Reilly, that decision will depend on whether the heat sensors, which were touched by water, have been damaged and can be fixed in time for the 8:20 a.m. start of class. School usually ends at 2:50 p.m.

A pipe ruptured in a second-floor bathroom around 12:45 p.m., O’Reilly said. The school department decided to dismiss the students at 1:30 p.m. because they had to shut off water to the building.

Meanwhile, school department technicians were working on the main computer server because that, too, had been touched by water. O’Reilly said that it wasn’t clear whether any individual computers were damaged by the flooding.

A computerized phone message will be sent out to Mount Pleasant parents if school is cancelled tomorrow or if classes are delayed.

-- Journal staff writer Linda Borg

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