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JACKSON CORNER SCHOOL
Mount Ayr Record-News, Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Smoke pours from the Jackson Corner School building while
students watch the fire men work
on the fire last Thursday.
Amish school house fire
The Mount Ayr and Union townships fire departments responded to a fire at the Amish school house near Jackson Corner on
J55 and U.S. 169 south of Mount Ayr [and east of Redding] at 9:58 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 29. Class was in session with some 50 students in the
Jackson Corner School building when wool insulation in the attic began smouldering from the heat of the chimney of the
building's wood stove. The building and contents were evacuated while the fire was fought. There was a good deal of smoke
for a period, but fortunately the fire was put out without the building catching fire or major damage was done to the
building. No estimate of damage to the building was available but classes were back in session this week.
Upper right: Firefighters use a fan to help blow smoke out of the building.
Upper Right: Insulation is pulled away from the chimney in the school building.
Top: School children wait outside with all the school furniture and equipment that was taken
out of the building in case the fire got out of control. Bottom: Fire rolls from the building, obscuring children watching from an adjoining field.
Photographs courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012
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