BHS Choir Comes To The Rescue!

There has always been a big cross-town rival with Burroughs High but on February 27 that all disappeared when the Burbank High School Choir came to the rescue of the John Burroughs High School Choir.

When the truck carrying the JBHS choir equipment back from a competition on Feb 27, ran off the road; Burbank High's choir came to the rescue.

Late on that Saturday the Burroughs truck carrying all their choir equipment slid off the rain slick transition road from the 605 to the 5 freeway, landing on its side down a very muddy embankment. The driver was not hurt which was the good news. The bad news was that a cart that held the choir's risers had broken loose and tore through the roof of the rental truck. A tow truck was called and when the tow truck pulled the truck back onto the roadway, all of the choir's equipment spilled out into the mud and rain.

Soon the word of the accident spread quickly by cell phone when Gary Stevens a choir parent whose brother , Sean Stevens, was driving the Burbank High Choir truck back home from the same competition called him. Sean turned around and came back to the scene of the accident to see if he could help. Realizing they would need a truck for all the equipment, he drove back to Burbank High, but no one to let him in so he drove to Burroughs and unloaded the BHS equipment on the Burroughs stage and then drove back to the accident scene. By this time a group of about 10 choir dads , along with the choir director, were carrying the muddy equipment up the enbankment. The exhausted group got back to Burroughs at 6 in the morning, where they parked the truck, and went home to get some sleep.

That afternoon a large group unloaded the truck and cleaned off the equipment and then loaded up the Burbank High choir equipment and put it back into the Burbank High rental truck and drove it back to Burbank High and unloaded. A couple pieces of the Burrough equipment needed some welding which one of the dads did and so their was only two pieces of equipmet that would need to be replace at several hundred dollars, but overall they were lucky as it could of been worse.

By the following day, a new rental truck was parked next to the Burroughs Auditorium, being loaded for the choir's next competition.