2 Thursday, May 15,1997 Pahrump Valley Gazette
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NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL NEVADA
Friday through Sunday...Chance
of afternoon and evening thun-
Cooling trend with highs Friday
in the 80s cooling to the 70s to
lower 80s Sunday. Lows in the
40s.
SOUTHERN NEVADA
Friday throngh Sunday..Dry and
continued warm except for a
slight chance of oon and
evening thunderstorms over the
mountains. Lows in th= mid 6(
to mid 70s. Highs in the 90s to
near 105.
DESF, RT AREAS
Friday: Mostly clear, except
partly cloudy in the afternoon
and evening with a slight chance
of showers and thunderstornt.s
over northern de.sea. Lows:
Owens Valley, mid 40s m lower
50s; lower 70s in southern
. Highs: Owens Valley,
lower 90s; to 105 in soutlw.m
deserts. Saturday and .mday
Mostly clear, except partl]f
cloudy in the aD.crnoon aad
evening with a slight of
showersand thunderstover
northern deserts. Lows: Owens
Valley upper 40s to mid 50s;
mid 70s in southern deserts.
Highs: Valley, upper 80s
to lower 90s; to 102 in souflma
deserts.
Fire forces Manse evacuation
by Geoff Kreis
Students were evacuated from Manse Elementary School
Tuesday when a power outage and two separate circuit board
fires occurred, forcing the school to close.
The commotion began around 1 l a.m. when a contractor
apparently backed a utility truck !
into an electrical pole causing a ] '
wire to snap. Nearly 24,000 ]
volts surged into the school,
blowing out circuit panels and I
cutting off power. I
"When teachers alerted me -
of the fire, we evacuated stu-
dents and pulled the alarm," said i
Dale Norton, principal of the
school. "We extinguished the
fwe as soon as possible. Luckily
no one was hurt."
School officials relocated the children to Petrack Park,
where they finished the rest of their school day. Parents helped
teachers by supervising the children at the park. An employee
from Smith's supermarket even went so far as to bring
Gatorade for the children to drink.
"We had a very quick response time," said Norton. "The
people all pitched in and helped out. The fire chief even
complemented us."
Classes were scheduled to
resume Thursday. "All the elec-
tricity will be up and running
other than the fire system," said
Norton. "We're not sure if it
will be running by the time
classes resume." If the fu'e sys-
tem is not working the school
: will alert children with
blowhorns from hall monitors
that will be keeping an eye on
the school.
At presstime, there was no estimate of the cost of repairs.
Most of the damage was contained to the electrical system
which was recently installed at a cost of nearly $20,000.
Earlier Tuesday, around 7a.m., the school had a water main
break which was repaired by 10a.m.
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