Internet of Things a Novel Way to Think of Connecting Safety Equipment

ASBURY, Al. (WAFF) - Children will return to class Friday at a Marshall County school after a fire forced school leaders to close up early Thursday.

The blaze occurred at Asbury Middle School near Albertville. Teachers said it started in the counselors office. A plant was placed too closed to a lamp, and when it overheated it caught fire. 

Tracey Wigley is still shaken from what happened Thursday morning at the school, when she and another teacher put out the fire.

How sad is this? Just days before school is supposed to start vandals strike the same school twice in two days. This follows vandalism at another school in the district that resulted in $50,000 in damage.

Of course, fire extinguishers were used in each case. The school is now installing cameras. Another good option would be en-Gauge electronically monitored fire extinguishers. When done, security and law enforcement officials could be immediately notified when an extinguisher was removed -- perhaps allowing for the vandals to be caught in the act.

Electronic monitoring of fire extinguishers and annual safety inspections make schools safer.

That's a big condo building.  How much damage would have been done had the fire extinguisher not been there?  How long would the fire have burned? Instead, the fire extinguisher did it's job. Link to the news video after the jump.

Or so she thought that by using a fire extinguisher she'd get "a poof." Instead she got a big blast. Vandalism doesn’t always mean malicious, but the consequences of extinguisher vandalism are real.  Fines, evacuated dorms, clean up and in some cases … guilt. Warning: TV MA L

Hard to believe that kids in colleges have been doing this for years without school administrators knowing.  Brings new meaning to school safety.