Stage lights spark fire call at Rancho High School

[derekleffew]

Stage lights spark fire call at Rancho High School--Las Vegas Sun

North Las Vegas fire officials who investigate the smoldering was caused by a stage light touching the drapery, Szymanski said.

NOT the same school as this thread http://www.controlbooth.com/threads/fire-on-high-school-stage-causes-25-000-damage.9164/ from 2008.

 

[backstagebadger]

Back before my time here, a custodian turned on the lights in our auditorium for the first time after not being used all summer. There was so much dust on them (due to a large drywall repair from a roof leak) that the whole rig created enough smoke to set off the alarms. It was 21°F outside and the rental group was a bunch of bodybuilders wearing not a whole lot. The fire department decided to open the smoke hatches in the stage roof and, due to a light snow, a few of our battens now have surface rust.
Now we clean our lights off with an air compressor after long spans of them not being used.

 

[BillConnerFASTC]

This is probably much more common tan we realize. I've been on stage for three such instances. Know first hand of others. It was, after all, lighting igniting soft goods at the Iroquois 110 + years ago. If all the money and effort spent on fire safety curtains - which have yet to be shown effective - had been invested on heat borders on lighting battens - we'd be better off.