NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A shifting water pipe lid caused \u201cmultiple crawling bugs\u201d to surface at Fletcher High School on Tuesday, Duval County Public Schools said.<\/p>\n
The issue happened when \u201cthe lid of an underground water pipe in Fletcher Hall shifted and pushed through the floor, causing a small pool of water to surface, along with multiple crawling bugs,\u201d Principal Dean Ledford told families.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Ledford said the custodial team cleaned up the water and removed the bugs, and district maintenance staff started making repairs.<\/p>\n Pest control services will also make an \u201cimmediate service visit\u201d to the school in addition to \u201cregular pest control services,\u201d Ledford said.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Here is the full message from Ledford:<\/p>\n \u201cHello Fletcher High School families, this is Principal Ledford calling to make you aware of a maintenance issue that occurred at school today.<\/p>\n \u201cEarlier this afternoon, the lid of an underground water pipe in Fletcher Hall shifted and pushed through the floor, causing a small pool of water to surface, along with multiple crawling bugs. Our custodial team responded immediately, cleaned up the water, and removed the bugs.<\/p>\n \u201cDistrict maintenance staff were on-site and have begun making the necessary repairs. We have also notified our pest control vendor as a precaution and scheduled an immediate service visit, in addition to our regular pest control services.<\/p>\n \u201cAs always, we want to keep you informed of anything that impacts our school day. Thank you for your continued support and patience as we address this maintenance issue.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the school. Thank you, and have a good evening.\u201d<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A shifting water pipe lid caused \u201cmultiple crawling bugs\u201d to surface at Fletcher High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,40000,1038,18897,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,19370,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-68668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-crawling-bugs-fletcher-high-school","tag-duval-county-public-schools","tag-fletcher-high-school","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-principal-dean-ledford","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}