Seven Hills School Hillsdale Campus — Lotspeich Faculty Reporting Location
Firefighters swarmed Seven Hills School in Madisonville before dawn on Friday after smoke was reported pouring from the roof of a large school building, prompting a first-alarm response and forcing the cancellation of classes in the campus’s lower school. The fire was reported at approximately 7 a.m. at the school’s address, 5400 Red Bank Road, sending crews scrambling to contain flames that initial information indicated had started in the building’s eaves before extending upward beneath roof-mounted solar panels.
According to WCPO 9 Cincinnati, the blaze was dispatched as a first-alarm fire, a designation that brought a substantial initial response to the Madisonville campus. The outlet reported that school officials announced classes for kindergarten through fifth grade in the Lotspeich building would be canceled for the day because of smoke damage, while WLWT reported that the cancellation applied to first- through fifth-grade students. The two accounts differ on the exact grade range affected, and Hoodline could not independently confirm which is accurate.
Dozens of Firefighters Respond Before Sunrise
WLWT reported that fire crews arrived around 6 a.m. and that dozens of personnel responded to the scene, a detail that underscores how quickly the response escalated at the Red Bank Road campus. The station’s report also noted that officials said the fire spread across the building’s roofline, and that the cause of the fire had yet to be determined as of Friday…