Paul Davis releases photos of work done after fire at Mitchell School

Posted on: 2:27 pm, April 7, 2014, by Katie DeLong, updated on: 08:40pm, April 7, 2014

RACINE (WITI) Paul Davis Restoration & Remodeling has now released pictures of its work inside Mitchell School following a fire back on February 27th. Paul Davis says its crews were able to get the school ready for Mitchell Elementary School students to return on March 18th getting work done inside the school more than 12 hours ahead of schedule.

Fire raced through the elementary schools multi-purpose room early on February 27th.

Paul Davis Restoration says thousands of man-hours were spent cleaning and repairing the site over two weeks.

Paul Davis says both Mitchell Elementary School and Mitchell Middle School were uninhabitable after the fire due to smoke, soot and water damage which permeated the 217,000 square foot two-story structure on Drexel Ave. in Racine.

Soot was caked onto most surfaces with a smoky odor throughout the building and an inch of water standing in many first-floor offices and classrooms, according to Paul Davis.

Demolition crews from Paul Davis National and Paul Davis Restoration and Remodeling of Southeast Wisconsin were permitted to be onsite with preliminary clean-up and stabilization on the night of the fire.

The company started the large-scale work just four days after the fire broke out.

The fire was intense causing the roof to collapse in some parts of the building and destruction throughout most of the school.

When the roof collapsed in the multi-purpose room, the remaining areas of interior and exterior walls also caved in.

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Paul Davis releases photos of work done after fire at Mitchell School