TikTok’s latest trend has students setting their Chromebooks ablaze, sparking school evacuations and safety warnings across ...

Students attempt to short their school-issued Chromebook or laptop computer, causing the laptops to potentially catch fire.

Students believed to have set a laptop on fire at their school may have been inspired by a social media challenge.

School district officials have had enough as a social media trend directing students to short-circuit their school-issued laptops sparked a half-dozen fires in the past week.