About 200 youngsters were ordered out of a Braintree school after a fire broke out in a storage cupboard.
Children from John Ray Junior School had to be escorted outside after a member of staff found a small fire had started in the storage room at about 11.45am yesterday.
A Braintree firefighter said: "We investigated it and it's not a suspicious fire, the fire started in the storage cupboard and then smoke then spread into the classroom."
The cause is not yet known and officers are still investigating it further.
Pupils and staff from the Notley Road school were allowed back into the school within 20 minutes.
Two Braintree fire engines attended the incident and four firefighters, using breathing apparatus, took about ten minutes to put out the flames.
Nobody from the school wished to comment about the incident.
Published Tuesday December 18, 2001
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