On December 24, 1924, the girls' wing of the school was destroyed by a fire, forcing 40 students into −10 °C (14 °F) weather in only their night clothes.[15] Three years later, in 1927, a report outlining the conditions at the school concluded that the poor construction of buildings at the school led to "numerous infections, colds, bronchitis, and pneumonia" during the previous winter.[16]:55 During a 1957 influenza outbreak in British Columbia the Kamloops district health officer, D. M. Black, reported that half of the students at the school had been ill.[17] At the time health officials from the University of British Columbia acknowledged the infection rate was "slightly more than normal but not a serious worry."[17]