25 firefighters tackle blaze at secondary school (From This is Hampshire)
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25 firefighters tackle blaze at secondary school
9:27am Saturday 2nd June 2012 in News By Emily Roberts, Chief Reporter
FIREFIGHTERS spent three hours putting out a blaze at a Basingstoke secondary school this morning.
Fire crews were called to Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College at 1.21am to reports that the fire alarm was sounding. When they arrived they found a fire inside a ground floor office at the school in Wessex Close.
Three fire engines and 25 firefighters tackled the blaze and managed to contain it inside the office, which was left with smoke damage.
The cause of the fire is now being investigated.
Neil Buckner, watch manager at Basingstoke fire station, said: “Because it was at a school, and they are often the target of arson, it’s normal to carry out an investigation.”
Comments(19)
martin65
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5:05pm Sat 2 Jun 12
How comes then so many school leavers aren't very enterprising or business minded.
The_right_stuff
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5:15pm Sat 2 Jun 12
Beats108
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6:45pm Sat 2 Jun 12
The_right_stuff wrote:As in these days they are well equipped with modern technology and equipment that it warrants this. Backup would of been on its way and as it shows that these firefighters managed to contain the fire releasing the other engines to help out other people in need of there help!! Instead of moaning about them maybe moan about, if true, the yob or yobs that started the fire and wasted these persons times where they could of been saving others!!!!
It's disgusting. In these austere times why do we still have as many as THREE fire engines available?
Goya
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7:00pm Sat 2 Jun 12
martin65 wrote:Martin65 - I suppose your children (if you have any) are educated privately? You sound like a snob - my daughter is an A* student at this school and predicted to do very well in her exams thank you very much - my son also attended this school and has done well for himself. I suggest you keep your thoughtless comments about these young students to yourself!
I like the way they dress up what is just a comprehensive as a business and enterprise college. How comes then so many school leavers aren't very enterprising or business minded.
Goya
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7:05pm Sat 2 Jun 12
The_right_stuff wrote:Probably because three fire engines were available and the threat of a fire spreading quickly through a school is a real one! More costly to rebuild a school don't you think?
It's disgusting. In these austere times why do we still have as many as THREE fire engines available?
Theyouthmatters
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10:26pm Sat 2 Jun 12
martin65 wrote:Oh so you know every student that has left since the 04/05 school year? Oh you don't tell me more how you know the goings on of 1400+ Students that has left the school since then.
I like the way they dress up what is just a comprehensive as a business and enterprise college.
How comes then so many school leavers aren't very enterprising or business minded.
Buster Preciation
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11:06pm Sat 2 Jun 12
Theyouthmatters
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2:22am Sun 3 Jun 12
GC31
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9:54pm Sun 3 Jun 12
Never understood how you can make a school a specialist in one subject. For example, if a child happens to be business minded, but not great at sport, yet has the misfortune to be a yellow belly then that seems daft to me. They should be giving all children equal opportunities across the full curriculum.
Theyouthmatters
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10:33pm Sun 3 Jun 12
GC31 wrote:They don't focus on that one thing they just hold events related to that subject.
Didn't the austerity comment come across as ironic to any of those who responded?
Never understood how you can make a school a specialist in one subject. For example, if a child happens to be business minded, but not great at sport, yet has the misfortune to be a yellow belly then that seems daft to me. They should be giving all children equal opportunities across the full curriculum.
anyway CBEC always loses at the business competitions between schools. The schools business department sucks.
Buster Preciation
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9:52am Mon 4 Jun 12
Keep_Calm_And_Comment.
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12:16pm Mon 4 Jun 12
Theyouthmatters
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2:23pm Mon 4 Jun 12
Buster Preciation wrote:They can if they want but the schools here would prefer to be Comprehensives not Bi-literal like Cranbourne was when it opened.
And what's the point in making a SCHOOL a specialist one when they can't select? PUPILS have to satisfy the admissions criteria not any specilist criteria.
Buster Preciation
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8:19am Wed 6 Jun 12
Theyouthmatters wrote:No they can't. Grammar schools can select on ability but there are none in Hampshire and faith schools can select on faith. But state schools in Hampshire have to use the strict HCC admissions criteria. So if you are in catchment area for a "sports college" or a "business and enterprise college" that's where you go (unless there are spaces elsewhere) regardless of what you are good at. So...... what's the point?
Buster Preciation wrote: And what's the point in making a SCHOOL a specialist one when they can't select? PUPILS have to satisfy the admissions criteria not any specilist criteria.They can if they want but the schools here would prefer to be Comprehensives not Bi-literal like Cranbourne was when it opened.
Theyouthmatters
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7:15pm Wed 6 Jun 12
Buster Preciation
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8:26am Thu 7 Jun 12
It's not a question of what a school 'prefers' - it is a question of what the LEA allows (or allowed in the past). Hampshire has no accademic selection. So my question stands... "what is the point in specialist schools?"
Theyouthmatters
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8:12pm Thu 7 Jun 12
Specialist schools began when the government saw ... oh **** the Northern Schools are being short changed by the Southern Schools... so what happened was to keep the money they may lose the schools became specialist schools.
The _right_stuff
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2:37pm Sat 16 Jun 12
The_right_stuff wrote:my silly impostor again !!!
It's disgusting. In these austere times why do we still have as many as THREE fire engines available?
the real 'The _right_stuff' has a space bewtween the e and _ (underscore).
Keep_Calm_And_Comment. says...
11:01am Sat 2 Jun 12