Alvirne High School students and staff were evacuated Thursday morning to the nearby Hills Garrison Elementary School after flames broke out in a first-floor classroom, School District Superintendent Dan Moulis said.

Nobody was in the classroom when the fire, which Moulis described as an “oil fire,” ignited, triggering alarms and the building’s sprinkler system. Firefighters arrived within minutes and promptly called for a “working fire” response, which brought additional Hudson crews to the scene and a request for mutual aid companies to respond either to the scene or to cover Hudson stations.

First-arriving crews conducted a search to make sure nobody was still in or near Classroom 108, the room in which the fire is believed to have originated. They and other crews quickly extinguished

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