Thessaloniki: The teacher who saved the students is shocking
The foresight and observation of a teacher in the 4th elementary school of Pylaia in Thessaloniki gave the students of the school, as they almost understood the roof that was ending.
The ceiling fell in a matter of seconds and the 19 6th graders were rescued by their teacher, who took them out of the room shortly before the end.
“At 08.00 in the morning I entered the room of the 6th grade to pray because at 09.00 we will go on an excursion. I looked up at the ceiling and saw cracks which does not exist the day before. I immediately thought of taking the kids and going out. ‘Will I sit here now so that the ceiling falls on our heads?’ That’s really what I thought. ‘Possible;’ “And I picked them up and we left quickly – quickly,” the teacher told Mega and the “Live News” show.
“A little later I went out to the caretaker and told him ‘maybe it’s my idea, take a look too’, because he had not fallen yet. He goes and turns to me and says’ you are right. The whole ceiling rests on the curtain rod ‘. This happened in five minutes. The roof is already in the air. “Five minutes after we left the room,” she added.
The false ceiling, with the plasterboard, the insulation and the aluminum frame were recently installed in the specific section by a private workshop, which then gave the green light to the school management to start the lessons.
“We went out at 08.30 and 09.00 the ceiling. And although it was cracked, they had no lower parts to make noise earlier. Absolutely nothing. There was only a little dust on the floor. Noise. And I saw dust coming out of the window. The whole ceiling fell. I do not believe that all this happened. I’m still in shock. “At 09.00, when the ceiling fell, we would be inside,” the teacher noted.
“None of my colleagues believed me. I told them, when we went out in the courtyard, that the ceiling would fall and no one believed me. The children did not understand anything. I told the kids to go outside because I saw these cracks. “We went out, we played outside to pass the time and the children did not understand, they were not afraid”, says the teacher.
Prosecutorial intervention
The incident, which almost ended in tragedy, provoked the intervention of the prosecutor’s office, which ordered the competent police department to conduct a preliminary investigation to investigate whether the offense of violating building rules ended.
By order she asks to identify the manufacturers. Until then, all students of the school will continue their lessons with distance learning.
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