Responding firemen from 13 local companies poured water on the fire, and several suffered smoke inhalation, including Marple Chief Newt Kerber. Eric McGillicuddy, great grandson of Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack, was hit in the arm by a chair and taken to the hospital for treatment. Students and teachers worked together to try to rescue records, musical instruments and furniture from the building. Several students grabbed a nearby ladder and put it up to his window and Harvey climbed down. Teacher Harry Harvey ran to his room to get records and money from an office safe and found himself trapped. Two students jumped in their cars and raced to the Newtown and Marple fire houses to give the alarm. But someone noticed that the phone wires from the building has been burned. The fire alarm was supposed to alert the nearby fire companies. A contemporary news article noted that 750 pupils and 38 teachers filed out in orderly fashion in two minutes. At the same time, teacher Anne Campbell saw smoke, and instructed her class to leave the building. He opened the door to an adjacent storage room and found it in flames. On April 9, 1956, just past Noon, custodian George Earle was eating lunch in a basement room of the high school when he smelled smoke.
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