Penyrheol Comprehensive School Blaze

This work was created for a module called News & Current Affairs. This is an extract from the News & Current Affairs blog that we had to create in the second year of University. This module enabled me to write creatively yet factually about the 'real world'. To see the News & Current Affairs Blog please click on www.becadams.blogspot.com

Penyrheol Comprehensive School Blaze

These are the shocking pictures of Penyrheol Comprehensive School in Gorseinon that burnt down on Saturday 18th March 2006. This was the second time in twelve years that the school in Swansea was set alright. During the early hours of Saturday morning more than 40 Class rooms were destroyed by the flames. Sixty firefighters were called to cope with the blaze, and water from the nearby Leisure Centre swimming pool had to be used to put out the fire. Two 17 year old youths were held for questioning but have now been released.The school was closed for less than two weeks before pupils began attending temporary demountables that were set up in the school yard. The pupils of Penyrheol Comprehensive school and the members of the local community are currently holding fund raisers to help pump money back into the distorted school.