Fire strikes Seymour High School

Seymour, Conn. (WTNH) - The Seymour Fire Marshal says the fire at Seymour high was caused by fireworks.

The fire was reported at the school around 3:25 a.m. when a police officer on patrol spotted smoke coming from the pool area.

A fire department spokesman told News 8 the fire was quickly extinguished. There was minor damage inside of the building due to it's concrete structure.

The students involved in the school's summer program had to be relocated for the day.

"It is upsetting," 1st Selectman Paul Roy said. "It's a town building and you go through a lot of stuff with budgets and stuff like that and you hate to see things like this happen to your town buildings."

There is no word who might have ignited the fireworks. "At this point we're not going to make any assumptions," Chief Scott Andrews said. "We are treating it as a suspicious fire until the fire marshal's office can prove otherwise."

The students should be able to return to the school's summer program on Friday.