Teacher had brought own heater to Tokyo elementary school before fire

The head of a Tokyo public elementary school that was severely damaged in a fire last month said Thursday that a teacher had placed her own electric heater and air circulator in the storage room where the fire is thought to have originated.The teacher had routinely dried items there after using the washing machine in the home economics room, and was drying articles of her own clothing at the time of the fire, Principal Masahiro Takakusaki said.The fire broke out in the fourth-floor storage room of Takinogawa Daisan Elementary School on June 19. At the time, the teacher and 24 fifth-graders …READ FULL ARTICLE