Teens Face Charges In L.I. School Arson

Two teenagers were charged with arson at their Long Island school.  The fire,  just weeks before the first day of classes, badly damaged a temporary building connected to the George Washington Elementary School in West Hempstead.

The suspects were both only 14-years-old.

Though nobody was in the building at the time, District Superintendent John Hogan suffered a heart attack at the scene.

School officials said he's "alert and resting comfortably" at a Mineola hospital.

"It's very scary to see that my room got on fire," said Casey Levey, who will enter the third grade this fall.

"For someone to set it on fire, that' just not fair, to everyone especially my teacher," said Casey's sister Ciara Levey, a sixth grader. "She was here last night and she was heartbroken."

The Nassau County fire marshal said the fire was intentionally set. The arson squad was investigating the possibility that the blaze was started by Molotov cocktails or fireworks thrown into a classroom.