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Samantha Hayes reporting Burned out, boarded up Wasatch Junior High School is no place to be walking around.
But, breaking into the school has become a sort of bragging right, for kids in the neighborhood.
As we found out it's a health issue, too.
Wasatch Junior high burned down in a huge fire last summer. The school district is planning to rebuild. Until then the school has become a mysterious place kids in the area are curious to explore.
Call it human nature. But the best part about doing something wrong- is telling everyone about it.
"You walk around in the classrooms and look through windows."
This 12 year old- and his friends- snuck through a hole in the chain link fence.
"It smelled like fire and smoke and weird..there's glass all over the ground and windows shattered."
He brought home a few things to prove it to his buddies.
"Cause you can say I have something you don't to people."
He can also say he was grounded...because that's what happened when his mother found out. She does not want to be identified.
"Its our responsibility as parents to make sure children aren't getting in here and i'll do a better job of that with my own children especially knowing there's a health issue."
The health issue- in addition to glass and debris is asbestos. There is a warning sign on the property.
"If they had a better fence that would help."
The kids know not to go in, but as any parent knows the second you tell a child not to do something... "
"The bricks are cool cause they are black."
The company contracted for asbestos removal- R & R Environmental tells Eyewitness News:
"What has been done has been done in accordance to the rules and safeguards and what will be done will be done in accordance to the rules and safeguards."
"Its an issue, I think they should know kids are breaking in."
Granite school district said it has received no complaints or calls from parents. And until that happens, has no public comment.
