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School staff submitted work orders for alarm panels at 21 schools between Dec. 28 of last year and Feb. 9 of this year — two days before the catastrophic fire at William Fox Elementary, according to emails obtained by CBS 6 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
School staff submitted work orders for alarm panels at 21 schools between Dec. 28 of last year and Feb. 9 of this year — two days before the catastrophic fire at William Fox Elementary, according to emails obtained by CBS 6 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
The CBS 6 Problem Solvers dug deeper into the contracts Richmond Schools has with the alarm monitoring company to try to figure out whose responsibility it was to reprogram the alarm panel.
Just ten days before a catastrophic fire destroyed William Fox Elementary School, the school's principal Daniella Jacobs submitted a work order to have the fire alarm repaired because it had three error messages that required her to "silence the alarms".