How a routine phone call led to the closure of a Wake County high school
About 150 students at Crossroads Flex High School are without a school building after fire marshal intervention.
It all started with a phone call in 2023 - a Wake high school administrator made a routine call, asking when the last time Crossroads Flex High School had a fire inspection.
The problem? The Wake County fire marshal’s office had no idea a school was even there.
WRAL education reporter Emily Walkenhorst tells us how this came to pass and what's next for the school and its students.
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