On June 14, fire crews responded to a fire at Delta Middle School that gutted the school’s gym. In a post to the Millard School District’s Facebook page it was shared, “it appears the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of materials that had been removed from the gymnasium floor as the custodial staff carried out their annual refinishing of the floor…the materials, which had been removed to a large trash can in the gymnasium heated and began to emit smoke.” The post continued, “smoke detectors in the gym are part of the ventilation system, which had been turned off as the dust and smell from the refinishing was carried out in order to confine the effects of the process to the gymnasium. This meant that smoke detectors were not triggered.” No fire damage was sustained outside of the gym, which had a large hole burned in the roof, but the rest of the school did sustain smoke and water damage. In the post, the school district shared that they “have every expectation that school will be able to resume at the middle school when students and staff return in August.”