Kelloggsville — A couple months after a fire that destroyed a portion of its fleet, Kelloggsville Public Schools has replaced half of the buses damaged in the blaze and is moving forward on designs to rebuild its bus garage.
Just after midnight on April 19, a fire broke out at the district’s bus garage, located on 52nd Street near Kellogg Woods Drive. No one was injured, although six buses were destroyed. The Kentwood Fire Department’s report has stated the cause as undetermined with no suspicion of foul play, Kelloggsville Director of Instruction Jeff Owen said.
Dean Transportation and Kentwood Public Schools supplied the district with buses for the rest of the school year.
The district has now added back three new buses for the fall, with plans to stagger purchases of the remaining three in the future so that the district does not have to replace all six vehicles in the same year, Owen said.
As for the bus garage itself, “We are in the initial stages of working with our architects to design a structure that will meet our needs,” he said, adding that construction on a new garage is at least a year out.
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