US Columbine High School cancels class Thursday after fire that spread into school's ventilation system

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/class-columbine-high-school-canceled-fire-ventilation-system/ (A)
By Jesse Sarles
Updated on: February 26, 2025

“Classes at Columbine High School have been canceled on Thursday after a fire started outside the wood shop and then spread into the building's ventilation system.

CLAIRA COLEMAN

The fire started at about 11 a.m. on Wednesday and forced an early dismissal for students.

CBS
Two firefighters, both from South Metro Fire Rescue, were hurt and several students had to be get checked out.
The fire has been deemed accidental and was started by dust in the ventilation system outside the shop.”

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

I'm blaming a Columbabe just because.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

the ghost of dylan

 

[FierceBrosnan]

This place just can't catch break.

 

[Chongqing]

I could have sworn they closed this place. Did they not?

Edit: they did not.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Wasn't one of the bombs placed in the ventilation system?

 

[TV's Adam West]

Obviously a coverup.

 

[FieldPiece]

Somebody didn't install the fireblocking dampers right, or the electrical is fucked up.

 

[Figger Nucker]

I could have sworn they closed this place. Did they not?

Edit: they did not.

They built around cafeteria where most of the shooting was IIRC.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Bro that place is fucking cursed.

 

[PunkinMan]

I could have sworn they closed this place. Did they not?

Edit: they did not.

That was sandy hook. It reopened in 2016

 

[thog]

There was an incident just recently with a student declaring themselves homeless when they weren't and being allowed to move in with their teacher.

Just close and demolish the damn school and salt the earth already. It's cursed.

 

[Chongqing]

That was sandy hook. It reopened in 2016

They planned to close this one too in 2019 but decided not to.

 

[drfuzzyballs]

Wasn't one of the bombs placed in the ventilation system?

Yes the attempted propane bombs were thrown on the roof.

 

[Chuck McGill]

I was getting ready to make a comment like "things that wouldn't be newsworthy if Columbine wasn't in the name", but after reading the comments here, then reading up on all the other incidents that have taken place since I am now firmly on Team Indian Burial Ground. Close that place, the fuck are you people doing?

 

[Xarpho's Return]

They built around cafeteria where most of the shooting was IIRC.

Can I take the opportunity to sperg how we've gone too far in demolishing these mass shooting sites? When Columbine happened the biggest mass shooting was at a Luby's Cafeteria restaurant in Texas, and they reopened the site without major changes (it closed about a decade later during a round of restaurant closures, which would continue for the next twenty years until the chain would be down to a few dozen locations). McDonald's had a similar incident in the 1980s (the the San Ysidro McDonald's shooting) and they were all set to reopen (renovating and everything) but "following discussions between community leaders and McDonald's executives" it was not reopened and demolished, with it being donated to the city. (It would've been negative press to reopen.)

The demolition of Sandy Hook is complicated by the terrible "parents" issue, but even with Randy Stair, who shot his co-workers after the store was closed for the night, reconfigured the floorplan. Yes, I know that the three people he murdered aren't coming back but you could at least not gut the store and rearrange everything. Take time to mourn, but you have to move on eventually. You can't inconvenience the rest of the world just because of a tragedy.

 

[Cave Fisher]

I'm gonna sound retarded, but I had no idea this school was still open, I had always assumed its reputation as being THE school shooting site had pretty much destroyed any chance it had of people going there again.

 

[EepEep]

I was getting ready to make a comment like "things that wouldn't be newsworthy if Columbine wasn't in the name", but after reading the comments here, then reading up on all the other incidents that have taken place since I am now firmly on Team Indian Burial Ground. Close that place, the fuck are you people doing?

Nah, it's the name.

Other schools in the area have also had fires and other weird issues over the years before most of them went through a huge overhaul/rebuild.

Though, I will say this is the first one I've seen where smoke inhalation was a huge concern. But, ya know, vents.

 

[RodgerDodger]

The fire has been deemed accidental and was started by dust in the ventilation system outside the shop.”

Gah! Pet peeve with large but older schools. The administration and school board rarely seems to grasp that they need dust collectors on the shops. Especially the wood shops. And letting that shit build up in the ventilation system is bad. If you hear of a roof fire at a school, it is almost always this. And the motherfucking roofs are nothing but Pidgeon shit as far as the eye can see.

 

[Extreme Crusader]

Cursed burial lands.