Early Morning Fire In Nassau Elementary School Cancels Classes

A fire that broke out overnight in an elementary school in Lawrence has canceld classes for at least today.

The fire started in the early morning hours at the lower school building of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, located at 33 Washington Ave. in Lawrence. Firefighters arrived to find smoke on the second floor and a fire in one classroom.

"It was confined to one classroom, a large classroom," Chief Edward Kohler of the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department told ABC7. "A little extension to the hallway, and a little extension to the outside of the building when the flames came out the windows."

The fire was quickly put out.

School officials canceled classes at the lower school for Thursday, which affected the early childhood, elementary and middle school students. The school said that the damage from the fire is still be assessed.

Police told Newsday that the fire does not seem suspicious.

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