Firefighters called to high school, but it’s just a little furnace issue

It’s not the kind of news — the fire department is headed toward one of your buildings — any superintendent wants to take.But the fact that the call came on a Sunday morning and the news that it wasn’t a full-blown fire, or even close to that, made it a little easier for Jay Jurrens to take Sunday morning.“It was, at first, a little scary,” Jurrens said, “but everything’s fine and really no one’s going to know anything happened.”What did occur, Jurrens said, was that a motor in furnace located in the New Hampton High School office area “seized up” and overheated. That created smoke that was discovered by a custodian on Sunday morning.— For more on this story, see the Oct. 2 New Hampton Tribune.