A detective case -- whether there was a fire evacuation at San Diego International Airport (by William)

This evening at my school open house, Ms. Huang mentioned to me that her son told her that there was fire evacuation at San Diego International Airport today.  She told me that my homework was to get more information and write a blog about it. 

I went home and started working on it after I did all my night chore.  We first went to Google and Facebook, and searched for any report about fire evacuation, but we didn’t find any.  Then I started thinking “Hmm, why doesn’t the internet have it?”  My mom said “Why don’t we call the Airport directly to find out whether it really happened?”  So she found the phone number online and called the Airport, but there were voice messages only because people have gone for the day.  Then we tried to call the Fire Department in the Airport, but that didn’t work out either for the same reason.  Next we tried to call the Police Department non-emergency line, a dispatcher there told us that she hadn’t heard anything about the airport fire today.  At last, we called the car rental company at the Airport and were told that they didn’t hear anything about the fire evacuation at the airport. 

At this point, my mom turned to me and said “Ha ha ha, William, it is possible that the evacuation was small scale so most people don’t even know about it.  It’s also possible that Ms. Huang is testing you and there was no evacuation.”  Either way I loved the investigative work. 

Thank you Ms. Huang for giving me the challenge.  The research process was interesting and exciting.