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The holiday weekend turned into a flood clean-up effort for one Utah County school.
It's class as usual today inside Provo's Centennial Middle School, even though on Sunday part of the school was like a waterfall and river.
"Water was showering from the second floor down onto the tile here, through the light fixtures," principal Mitch Swenson said.
He says a fire system sprinkler head popped off Sunday afternoon, shooting out thousands of gallons of water.
"Fortunately, yesterday was a holiday, so we didn't have school yesterday, and we've pretty much dried out today," Swenson said.
Luckily, the water stopped a foot short of flowing into the library.
Workers are now watching the ceiling and floor tiles for any new cracking that might appear.
E-mail: rjeppesen@ksl.com
