Students at two Levittown schools were evacuated Tuesday morning due to a small fire.
The fire was contained to a heating unit inside a classroom at Carl Sandberg Middle School and extinguished itself. However, Albert Schweitzer Elementary School was evacuated along with the middle school due to the two buildings being connected, Middletown Township Fire Marshal Jim McGuire said.
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The fire marshal told LevittownNow.com the fire in the heater caused minor damage and filled a classroom with smoke.
The students were only outside for a minutes before fire officials deemed it safe for the buildings to be occupied again, McGuire said. A statement from the school said fire alarms went off around 9:10 a.m. and students were back in their classes by 9:40 a.m.
According to scanner reports, a fire truck responding to the scene was in a minor accident with another vehicle at the school.
