Bronx, New York, USA
1919 - FIRE DRILL PROVES VALUE. 2,500 Pupils Leave Burning School In Minute and Half.

The efficiency of school fire drills brought 2,500 children safely out of Public School 2, 169th Street and Third Avenue, the Bronx, yesterday, when fire started shortly before 3 o'clock in the teacher's retiring room on the third floor of the building.

The fire was discovered by Nicholas Lawlor, a teacher in carpentry, when smoke poured into his classroom. It was extinguished within ten minutes by the fire department. The cause is unknown, and the damage was slight.

Lawlor, who had a class of forty pupils in session, pulled an automatic fire alarm box in the hall, and then notified Miss Helene Levine, the Acting Principal, who rang the school alarm. A minute and a half later, 2,500 children were in the street.

The New York Times
New York, New York
May 1, 1919

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