It is not a rumor. We had a fire in the metalshop while welding instruction was taking place. The fire was extinguised by the students and instructor with the dry powder metal shop extinguishers. The fire department needed a “ladder” to inspect the ventilation unit that had caught fire. No one knows why it caught fire as it wasn’t even in use during the instruction. It started as a little smoke and then quickly turned into a blaze. We called the CFD to ensure that it was not smoldering. It created an enormous amount of smoke and it began to bleed over into the woodshop. The FD instructed us to keep the door closed and run the other ventiator with a fan in the room to evacuate all of the smoke. I left before the room was cleared.
We didn’t get to complete the class but @MTLmanglr agreed to teach us a wrap up class sometime soon to complete our metal Texas star project.
The class was excellent and Jim brought his personal MIG welder so more students could have wire time as he called it. Furthermore, there was a lot of 1-1 time with the instructors. Thanks to you both.
I suspect it was completely covered in extinguisher powder, too.