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Bedford City board: high school remains closed as district works on power, fire-alarm and heating repairs
Summary
At a Bedford City Board of Education meeting, operations staff said repeated, internal electrical failures left the high school without full power; the board was told the building "will not be ready" while vendors complete diagnostics, fire-alarm retesting and air-handler repairs.
Bedford City Board of Education officials said the district’s high school will remain closed while contractors diagnose and repair a series of electrical and mechanical failures.
The Executive Director of Operations told the board the school experienced repeated partial and expanded power outages caused by internal transformers, fuses and an aging electrical system. "They were at the beginning, partial power outages, and those grew in scope," the director said, and vendors including the utility (CEI) and multiple contractors have been on site. A generator…
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