- SOMERS POINT - A fire that started in a boy's room at the Jordan Road Middle School is being investigated as a possible arson, Schools Superintendent Gerald Toscano said.
The fire, which was reported at about 2 p.m., was isolated to the boy's room in the seventh and eight grade wing of the building, Toscano said.
It was extinguished by the Somers Point Fire Department with minimal damage to the bathroom, he said. No injuries were reported.
"Obviously, with security cameras in the seventh and eighth grade hallways, we know who goes in and out of the bathrooms at specific times," Toscano said.
He added that the Department of Health assured the district that the school would be safe to reopen Thursday morning as scheduled.
The faculty and student body was evacuated onto the recreational fields and dismissed from there at its regular time, Toscano said.
"It was very organized," he said of the evacuation. "You don't like to see these things, but all that practice (of fire drills) paid off."
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