Kindergarten burned down, 60 children had to temporarily stop school

According to Mr. Nguyen Minh Duc, Head of Education and Training Office of Van Chan district, Yen Bai province, the fire at a kindergarten in Lang Co odd area, Nam Muoi commune, Van Chan district was caused by short-circuit. The fire happened at about 5:00 p.m. on April 27. At that time, people saw smoke coming out of a school classroom. Due to the lack of fire fighting tools, people did not dare to bang on the door to enter the school to put out the fire. When the fire was so big, it spread and could not be extinguished.

After that, the functional forces of the commune and local people were present in time, but it took 2 hours to control the fire. However, the school site was burned down to 95%, the equipment and learning materials were completely burned. Damage is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.

After the fire, 60 children will be temporarily absent from school through the holidays of April 30 and May 1. It is expected that the children will move to the village’s cultural house to study temporarily. In the immediate future, the school calls on preschools in the area to have old tables and chairs, and school supplies to support the school with teaching equipment until the end of the semester. The school has reported to the Education and Training Department of Van Chan district to have a specific plan for the new school year.

Lang Co odd area is one of the special difficult preschools of Nam Muoi upland commune, Van Chan district. Yen Bai Province. The whole area currently has 60 students, most of them are from the Dao ethnic group. Due to the poor economic life, the learning conditions of the children here are also very limited. In previous years, the school was just a row of cottages, without a playground. By 2015, from the capital of socialization, the school was assembled with solid corrugated iron and foam, the children had a place to rest and study.

Nguyen Hanh Nhu – Principal of Nam Muoi Kindergarten said: “Around 5 p.m. on April 27, after school, the students were picked up by their families, and the teachers also went home. After that, people informed that they heard an explosion from an electrical outlet and smoke came out from a school classroom.Because all furniture, furniture, and furniture were made of plastic, when the fire spread, the fire spread. fast, very difficult to control”.

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