SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A Siouxland school is suing a computer company for damages after a laptop cart caught fire in the fall of 2018.
Lawton-Bronson Community School District is suing the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) to recover property damage after a fire caused damage to one of the school buildings.
A fire broke out in the school’s math classroom on September 25, 2018, around 4:48 p.m. While no one was injured, the fire caused “extensive damage to the classroom, hallways and school building,” documents state. The junior and senior high schools closed for about a week due to smoke damage in the building, reopening on October 2, 2018.
The documents said that the fire started at a laptop computer charging cart in the classroom that was plugged into an outlet. The cart and 17 laptops on it were all HP products. Documents state that the fire was caused by a malfunction of an HP product, calling it defective. read more here