Fossil Ridge fire
May 2, 2019
At roughly 9:00 a.m. on May 2, 2019, a fire broke out in the Fossil Ridge High School woodshop. According to the Poudre Fire Authority, the fire was caused when a spark from the band saw was taken in by the shop’s dust collection system. Students were evacuated immediately after the fire alarm was activated and were not let back into the building until deemed safe roughly one hour later. Students quickly took to social media to post videos of the fire.
As of the writing of this article, the Performing Arts Center wing is completely quarantined for both staff and students. Students who have items in the affected area currently have to wait for an update on how to retrieve them. For more updates about the status of the fire, please check our social media profiles: @fossilnews on Twitter and @fossil.news on Instagram.
69,165 Voters • May 10, 2019 at 11:26 am
I didn’t even know we had a fire
bruh • May 7, 2019 at 1:26 pm
bruh bruh bruh bruh
bruh • May 6, 2019 at 2:06 pm
bruh
Billy Joel • May 6, 2019 at 12:36 pm
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, “The King and I” and “The Catcher in the Rye”
Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock Around the Clock”
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”, trouble in the Suez
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai”
Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
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Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
“Lawrence of Arabia”, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
“Wheel of Fortune”, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China’s under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
Mike Wazowski • May 3, 2019 at 8:46 am
That fire was kind of cool, It was a interesting and unexpected situation, but due to the fire I will now most likely fail Engineering Exploration, which could possibly be fun. I’m excited for more fires. Thanks you Fossil Ridge High School, thank you firemen for putting out the fire and thank you Mr. Wulff for wearing a neon vest.
Trevor M. • May 3, 2019 at 8:11 am
um…it was May 2nd, not May 5th…..
thank u
Nah • May 2, 2019 at 8:20 pm
screw sko’ridge… can I get a SKO’FIRES
Adamas • May 2, 2019 at 1:21 pm
Why didn’t they call school? There’s only, like, half the people here and everyone was pretty shaken up afterwards, plus smoke could have escaped into the entire building, including the air vents.