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3-2-22 students evacuated following fire in waupun high school wood shop

todayMarch 2, 2022

Nobody was injured in a fire in the wood shop at the Waupun junior/senior high school.  All students had been removed from the shop area when firefighters arrived shortly after 3:30pm Tuesday to find smoke coming from the dust collector outside the wood shop. Crews quickly knocked down the fire in the dust collector, and extinguished a fire still smoldering in a drum sander machine in the shop.  The fire is believed to have started in the drum sander.  Damage was contained to the dust  collector and the drum sander.

Written by: Radio Plus