Historic Catholic school building destoryed by massive fire in Springfield Township, Delaware County

Delaware County Community is devastated by the loss of a Catholic School building that had been around for a century flames and heavy smoke began pouring out of St Francis of aissi school in Springfield Township yesterday evening firefighters quickly began work on putting out the fire but it's still spread and did plenty of damage action news reporter kathern Scott is live at the school right now with the latest Katherine Matt and school will be close today as they figure out what to do for the rest of the week at least this is what we're looking at this morning it's still dark but you can see the damage here at the school building school had been in session yesterday afternoon and then within hours this happened I picked my kids up from school at 2:40 p.m. and everything was fine then within hours Fierce Flames ripped through this building at St Francis of a cc Paris School in Springfield Township authorities say no one was inside and no one was injured the 911 call started shortly after 5:00 p.m. yesterday the parish and a second School building were not impacted by the fire this Parish recently celebrated 100 years I was just like so surprised it was very devastating cuz I've been here since like preschool um and made lots of good friends here just hard to see the school like this and the fire and just knowing our kids go here every day and now they won't be going here every day it's devastating it's absolutely devastating to our community it's been around for 100 years this building approximately 20 fire companies responded blasting water at the Flames the arch dasis of Philadelphia says the building house prek kindergarten and first and third grades efforts are already underway to find a new location hundreds looked on in disbelief this is really sad for me cuz like there were like people in the school and a lot of people have a lot of memories here my kids went here my husband myself my dad my grandom we all here watching it it's just heartbreaking but we have a community here that is going to help rebuild this and make it stronger and a lot of support and community that you don't find everywhere and so clearly a lot of Devastation the cause of this fire remains underway uh the investigation remains underway we're live in Springfield Township Katherine Scott Channel 6 Action News so many generations of memories thinking about all those families this morning thank you Catherine