Classes have been canceled for the rest of the week at Woodrow Wilson High School after the school was evacuated Tuesday due to a two-alarm fire, according to Dallas Independent School District officials.[[366575361,C]]
All extra-curricular activities at the school have also been canceled through the weekend.
The school will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Thursday for students and staff to retrieve any personal belongings they may have left behind. Those who want to retrieve their belongings will be escorted to classrooms and will only be allowed to stay for a few minutes.
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Dallas ISD officials said school will resume Monday morning.
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Firefighters were called at about 11 a.m. Tuesday to the facility in the 100 block of South Glasgow Drive, in the Lakewood area, after someone reported smelling smoke on the building's second and third floors.
Emergency crews observed smoke coming from the second and third floors when they first arrived, and school faculty and staff safely evacuated the nearly 1,800 students.
"Typically, with something like this, if you have 1,700 students evacuated it would require a larger response than a 2-alarm, but DISD staff and faculty did an outstanding job of following their own protocols and evacuating students prior to our arrival," said Jason Evans with Dallas Fire-Rescue.
Firefighters located and extinguished a small fire on the third floor in a bathroom closet, officials said.
No injuries were reported in the fire or evacuation. The fire was relatively small, according Evans, but the extent of the damage is still being assessed by Dallas ISD administrators.
"Due to extensive smoke and water throughout the two floors, we had to call for a second alarm just for manpower," Evans said.
The cause of the fire is still unknown and under investigation.
Several restoration crews spent Wednesday at the school working to get it into a position to reopen Monday.
"Our main focus here is to make sure that we can get our students and staff it back into the building on Monday and have class as normal," said Dallas ISD spokesperson Robyn Harris.
For now, the district is not sure if students will be required to make up the two days of school missed as a result of the fire. Harris said the district will request a waiver from the state in hopes the days will not have to be made up.
NBC 5's Eric King, Todd L. Davis and Holley Ford contributed to this report.
