A small

fire at McIntosh High School Wednesday afternoon caused

the evacuation of all of its students for a brief time

but was handled without incident.

According

to Capt. Ed Eiswerth of the Peachtree City Fire

Department, firefighters responded at about 1 p.m. to a

report of a fire in the chemistry lab. The fire was

actually in a second-floor stairwell, apparently caused

The entire

student body had already been evacuated when firefighters

arrived, and the fire was actually extinguished by the

school resource officer and other school staff.

The Fire

Department searched and ventilated the entire building

before turning it back over to school officials.

Damage to

the stairwell was minimal, Eiswerth said, and the fire

did not spread to any other part of the building.