Ballou Jr High 3 Alarm Arson - Puyallup, WA

[MrRedneckcoon]

I went to ballou! Good thing I don't anymore it sux there!

[crazzywhitechickz143]

I go to ballou (:

[peanutterdinosaur123]

I go to ballou

[makenziedrake123]

i go to Ballou!!!

[arohn2007]

I'm surprised the fire alarm is still going off at 1:00 after all that intense heat and flames. I thought it would be melted by now to a point where it no longer worked.

[InFeRnOxBuZzArD]

WOOOO!!!! GO BALLOU!!!! i cant believe a fire would dare do that its evil GO!!! Chipps and Half!!!!!!

[InFeRnOxBuZzArD]

WOOOOO Ballou's awesome i cant believe a fire would even dare do this that sucks go Chipps and Half!!!!!!

[Des509]

i go there now :/ i never new that happend but i am a sevie so i guess idk

[cait7bella]

:'( i lovee Ballou i go there now!!! it has changed my life love u Mrs. Chipps and Mr. Halfaday

[greengirl626]

i go there now yea chips and half im a 8th now

[ttdahareclan]

ha i go there. 8th grade. i thought it was just a rumor :o

[daddyeyes7]

OMG! I go to Glacier View by Emerald Ridge I have been theyre for many sporting events but I never knew about this! When was this school origonly built?

[VX2100DV]

@daddyeyes7  1971

[crazzywhitechickz143]

omg! i go there now as a 7rh graderr ,&i never knew about thiss!

[cait7bella]

@crazzywhitechickz143

i knoo u kayla itss Bella!!!!!

[smokey123465]

uhmhaha im sorry for laughing but thats my sisters birthday,she turned 6 im 13 right now and i have not seen ballou before this year,it looks just fine but i feel so sorry for the staff member,maybe mrs beyer will remember it,ill ask her tomorrow

6-3-10

[Killinggrapes]

holy crap thats ballou?! never would have expected that

[HotpocketMonkey]

i went to ballou 07 and 08 and 09 i loved that school

[jcriggs]

uh I can't believe it! I never knew this happened. I was in Arizona in 2000. I had 3 of the best years of my life at Ballou. 1991, 92, and 93. This is like a kick in the gut.

[michael092]

@KillerWalrus2845 That was uncalled for. That building at the Jr. High I used to go to was very sad and it was a pain watching this (at the time I attended there it was after this accident) and your saying that this should happen at rogers?!?! Why?! Because you want to see people get hurt? You like pain? You love to see schools burn down to the ground? You love to see a school that you don't like burn? I'm at rogers now so GO TO HELL!!!

[KillerWalrus2845]

dude its just a building, nobody got hurt in this fire, i never said i want to see ppl get hurt, i agree it wasn't a nice thing to say( i removed it just for you), but rogers is due for a nice remodel and i wasnt serious. go cry over old hotels being demolished or something

[kapoopoof]

Whoa I currently go to ballou now its like 2009 now lol and i'm a 7th grader so I just started and I can't believe that this happened when I was 3 o.o

[MrCodyPedersen]

I used to go to ballou and now go to stahl. Ballou is wa better. nuffsed

[tornadoguy2006]

students need not report...

[Serenablack9000]

I went to Ballou Jr. High 5 years ago. I still can't believe that the School district Banned Halloween that is SOOO Stupid.... Oh well thank goodness i'm not in school anymore.

[catholicwithacause]

It was a volunteer fire fighter who started the blaze. I went to Ballou when this happened.

[blackwolf13th]

OMG i'm a seventh grader at ballou currently and we just talked about that today!!

[sp0rtzgamer]

whats your name i go to ballou also

[SaralovejonasB]

i go there now n i never new dat happen!

[Ccorran]

until recently i was an 8th grader here... and my mom works next door, i nvr even knew this happened lol... wow...

[Frowned]

A stupid idiot? So that means he's intelligent?

[the06bug]

Speaking of three-alarm, it sounds like the school's alarm never wanted to give up

[zcwill]

Wow! I went to Ferrucci about 13 years ago and all I remember about Ballou is all the kids that went there were wannabe gangbangers! So this doesn't surprise me.

[WOTFWildshadow]

Oh shut up! I go to Ballou and we are one of the best schools in the district you stupid son of a bitch!

[Quad4Fun1]

I was the officer on the first engine that arrived on scene. When we arrived, the building was already about 1/3 involved and blowing through the roof. We tried to use master streams on the ground to keep the fire from moving, but there was so much fire that didn't do much good. The building was under renovation so it was pretty open inside. I believe the kid actually started the fire on the roof if I remember right.

[VX2100DV]

Yes, on the roof.

[arohn2007]

@Quad4Fun1 If he was a volunteer fire fighter you'd think he would've known better..Guess not! Hopefully he's in jail for quite a while

[ThAoRiGiNaLHbiC]

The crazy shit is I went to Ballou when this happened & i know the crazy ass who did it!

[HiMyNameIsJake21]

This is my school lol everyone who replies to this who goes here is 8th grade lol im alone

[iluvgum1]

i go there too

[foocock]

I had no idea.

I go there; 8th grader.

[cameronjackparker]

Wow! I went to Edgemont and now go to PHS and went to the new Ballou many times, but never knew they built it cause of a fire.

[katastrophicXkaylin]

That's my school.

I didn't gi there when this happened.

But now i'm in 8th grade there.

[curtisdonthurtus]

BURN BABY BURN

[HCObaby409]

Ahh, scary,.

[KillerWalrus2845]

i go here now...8th....i knew it happened b4 i even went there though....melikey....really wats ur name?

[MeLikey2Subscribe2U]

LOL! thats my school =D But i wasnt there when it happened. I am currnetly in 8th grade there. ^.^

[sickoldysk8er]

hahhaha omg thats my fuckin schhol frank h ballou jr high but i wasnt there when it happened but that was the library part YES

!!!!!!!!!

[Krinkel]

i wish that was my school :(

[eekabear]

plus one

[greengirl626]

@Krinkel dude dont you see that if it happened 2 your school it would hurt becaues of all of the things that happened there with u and all ur friends

[greengirl626]

@Krinkel rly?????? i go there i love the teachers but do u only wish that becaues it went on fire????? if thats the case just wow.....................

[folkwufe]

my favorite school

[hahaclub]

i fucking hate this school it sucks. (and yes i go to it currently).

[okinawapeeps]

lol Now i go to this school XD 7 years ago. hmmm

[jdolan1210]

I went to this school the year that they were rebuilding everything. It sucked because we had to use portables and everything but when it was finally done it was beautiful...I was part of the first group to sit in the new desks.

[CuteGirl554]

wooww i jus found that out!!

im goin there next year!!!!!!!!

[TajinderSD]

so is ur mom

[16my17]

yeah, i went there last year and Mrs. Sturdivent told us about it...

[meanboy35]

poor halfaday and chipps which makes a half a bag of chips

[meanboy35]

also when the fire happened later they made a brand new library which is nice

[meanboy35]

omg my school is on fire and i didn't even know that so it was 7years ago hmm i only started 2 years ago all well

[sss99usa]

i'll miss that school, i spent 3 years of my life there. my first love i met there, my best friends now i met there.

[mhowattvaldosta]

If you don't mind me asking, what did they do with all of the displaced students and staff? Portable classrooms? Or did they place them in neighboring schools?

[VX2100DV]

The cafeteria, gymnasium and music rooms. There was only two or three days left before summer break

[xFALL3NX7]

i go to kalles,back in the 60 or somthin. a kid got pissed at the teacher and lit the desk on fire and burnt the whole school down.

so they built a new one

and we just got a new school again haa

[Trainman11185]

i can hear some system sensor spectralert fire alarms going off inside the building

[trucksoner]

wow a fireman starting a fire, and btw of course sprinklers didn't help, the roof was on fire-no sprinklers up there!

[Anactofgod]

No school!

[antbuffy123]

Big whoopie there tearing it down anyways to rebuild someday just like they did to edgemont and there doing the same to aylen

[VX2100DV]

It was 25+ years ago. Most of the school was rebuilt. It was a big whoopie that could have taken lives. A teacher was the target.

[jjacob370]

i go to kalles

[VX2100DV]

Kalles was an arson victim several years ago when it was firebombed by one of it's students.

[Pitzler]

I go there now...its all fixed up

[jsaw200]

WarriorOfSIN :...you say that your 18? you dont know shit my friend.

[msandslimsuck]

i hope another fire bruns down the whole school.

love,

Matt

[astronomer110]

is nice!

[WarriorOfSIN]

YEAH PUYALLUP!!! the shitiest stuff happens in this town yet its the coolest town ever...Im 18 and i have seen flaming bums, shootouts, gangfights, crazy fin car crashes, BEST TOWN EVER!! too fun good vid

[okinoob]

i go to this school currently....and i never knew this happned

[cgarner35003103]

How could you GO to the school when this fire happened and never know what hapened? You didn't notice when you went to school the next day that half the building was GONE?!!!?!?

[mljmovies]

wat grade...me too

[kalijasin]

I went to this school. This is my old jr. High School. I went to school there 9 years before this fire happened.

[mysterykid200]

Wow the fire alarm was going off.. id thought the fire woulda gotten to the horns and melted them or the panel.

[16my17]

actually, i went there last year, and the main fire control box thing was in a portable.

P-21 to be exact...

[mysterykid200]

that system could have sub panels.. like my school. one big panel split into smaller

[16my17]

nope, the teacher said it was the main one. it could had a big sign on it saying that you go to jail if you mess with it

[WindyFoxxy]

It's my last year at Ballou and I just can't imagine it like that. That's around where two of my favorite teachers from last year are right now. It's just hard for me to imagine that part of the building on fire and so ruined.

[Nosredna91]

were your 2 favorite teachers erath and yoder? i had them last year they were great teachers

[WindyFoxxy]

Oh man I completely forgot to check back on this account for comment replies after I made my new account :[

sorry D:

But yes Erath and Yoder were my favorites :]

Now I go to Rogers though so I can't really visit their class :/

[AuntBee09]

gees, i'm sry that happened. at least no one was physically hurt (as i can tell from your description). it must have been wierd taping it tho, because it means so much to you. :(

[VX2100DV]

It was weird. At first it was a major story that I had an exclusive to, and it would be airing on the networks too. Then about 30 minutes into it, reality slapped me in the face and it was depressing. It's a wierd feeling that's hard to describe.