Morning Fire Clears Glen Rock Grammar School

Early arrival students were escorted from the Alexander Hamilton School in Glen Rock on Wednesday after a small fire ignited in a hallway light fixture.

Everything went smoothly as the youngsters were brought from the K-5 school on Harristown Road to the nearby Academy of Our Lady around 8:30 a.m. Oct. 18.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

Parents gathered at the Alexander Hamilton School in Glen Rock after a small ceiling fire ignited around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

Firefighters quickly doused the ceiling blaze at the Alexander Hamilton School in Glen Rock on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

Jerry DeMarco

10/18/2023 11:08 a.m.

Everything went smoothly as the youngsters were temporarily brought from the K-5 school on Harristown Road to the nearby Academy of Our Lady shortly after 8:30 a.m. Oct. 18.

Police officers who arrived first immediately doused the fire with extinguishers, Glen Rock Police Lt. Frank Riggio said.

No injuries were reported, the lieutenant said.

The cause is being investigated by fire officials and Glen Rock police detectives, he said.

A renovation had just been completed at the school, which re-opened last month.

Glen Rock firefighters had significant help from mutual responders who included:

firefighters from Fair Lawn, Hawthorne and Ridgewood;
the Fair Lawn Rescue Squad;
Glen Rock police;
the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps;
an EMS unit from The Valley Hospital.

Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story.

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