SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – A significant energy outage has shut down a Salt Lake Metropolis highschool on Wednesday morning.
Granite Faculty District officers say the facility outage is brought on by an older, defective transformer on campus.
In-person courses have been canceled and all college students will probably be transferring to distant studying throughout this time, officers introduced.
“Presently, whereas we do have some lighting in parts of the constructing, air circulation and warmth usually are not possible till the transformer is changed,” the district says.
College students have the choice to cease by the college and decide up studying supplies similar to laptops or different supplies if wanted. A grab-and-go lunch will probably be obtainable later right now, though officers can have extra detailed instances and data introduced later right now.
Coaches will probably be contacting college students to rearrange extra-curricular actions and occasions. For college students collaborating within the GTI program, faculty buses will probably be operating as deliberate.
Faculty officers say the campus has restricted cellphone capability, however are encouraging mother and father and college students to succeed in out with questions.
A full restoration of energy will probably be introduced later as effectively.
“This isn’t a time off and the expectation is that our college students and academics will have interaction meaningfully in studying alternatives,” says the district. “We anticipate a necessity for our college students, households and employees to be versatile and affected person as we work via this uncommon circumstance and we prolong our appreciation upfront on your assist as we achieve this.”