Image from the Potter Burns School website.
WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press
PAWTICKET, R.I. (AP) – A Pawtucket elementary school closed for more than a week after part of a ceiling collapsed into a classroom has reopened.
The Potter Burns School reopened Monday. It has been closed since May 23, when a large part of the ceiling collapsed into a vacant classroom. No one was hurt.
The school was ordered closed so all its ceilings could be inspected. The city's other schools were also inspected. One, Nathanael Greene, was closed Wednesday and is due to reopen Tuesday.
Workers have temporarily reinforced the ceilings with strapping, which will allow the schools to reopen so students can finish out the year.
School superintendent Deborah Cylke says inspectors have given them the OK and that the repairs are structurally sound.
