School’s Wood Shop, Classrooms Burn

Fueled by dry wood and an exploding welding tank, fire has destroyed the Meridian Middle School wood shop and at least two other classrooms.

“The wood shop is completely gone,” said Bob Corrie, a city councilman and a Meridian Fire Department commissioner. He said the cause of the Sunday night blaze was not known. No injuries were reported.

In May 1990, fire destroyed more than 60 percent of the school’s buildings, including 20 classrooms, the library, a gymnasium, an 800-seat auditorium and offices. The area that burned on Sunday had escaped that 1990 blaze.