Perry County School Fire Update
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Perry County Sheriff Ray Byrd says the fire
that destroyed two buildings on the Perry-Casa School District
Campus on Sunday is suspicious.
Byrd says there`s no clear, innocent explanation for the point
of origin of the fire.
Byrd says investigators have interviewed over a dozen witness
and are studying a videotape made by a school employee while the
fire was burning.
The buildings went up in flames a day before the Arkansas
Department of Education approved the merger of the Perry-Casa and
Ola School Districts.
The change has upset some patrons. The county clerk last week
said 53 percent of Perry-Casa school patrons had signed a petition
seeking to stop the merger.
