On March 7, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. More than 600 people were evacuated due to a fire at the Rossonskaya secondary school, BELTA correspondent was informed by the press secretary of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Marina Fando. The report of a fire in the three-story building of the Rossonskaya secondary school named after P.M. Masherov was received by the Rossonsk department for emergency situations today at 08:00. 4 units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were dispatched to the scene. Together with the school administration, 575 children and 36 teachers were evacuated. As a result of the incident, none of the schoolchildren or teachers of the educational institution suffered from burns or carbon monoxide poisoning. The school building's walls are smoke-stained. "However, after ventilation, the educational process can be resumed, with a delay of 1.5 hours," noted Marina Fando. According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire was the careless handling of fire by an unidentified person, as a result of whose actions accumulated waste paper caught fire. -0-

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