Fire ravages large section of Wismar Christianburg Secondary School

Fire still visible in the staff room area of the building after it was contained to a great extent.

Classes were suspended yesterday after an early morning fire ravaged a section of the four-storey Wismar Christianburg Secondary School gutting the top flat, while there was severe water and other damage to classrooms on the second and third storey and at least one teacher’s apartment in the bottom flat.

Teacher Roxanne Bacchus who lives in one of the teachers’ quarters first noticed the fire some time after 2.30 am. According to one of her three children who were in the apartment at the time, her mother woke her up telling her that something was amiss.

“First, she said like water come on