Smoke condition at Dyker school after construction crews leave adhesive on radiator
A smoke condition at a Dyker Heights school on Friday, January 26 left a classroom full of students suffering from light smoke inhalation. However, both administrators and local officials say the incident could have been much worse.
“I was on my way into the office when I got a text that said there was a report of a fire on the fourth floor of William McKinley Junior High School,” recalled John Quaglione, an aide to State Senator Marty Golden. “I said, ‘I’ll just go over there and check it out.’”
When he got to the school, located at 7301 Fort Hamilton Parkway, he found that it had self-evacuated after the incident, which drew a bevy of fire trucks, ambulances and cop cars – but, luckily, there were no flames.