A wooden school building is being extinguished for the second day in the Novgorod region.

Work to eliminate the consequences of a fire in a two-story wooden school building in the Pestovsky district of the Novgorod region has been going on for the second day. This was reported on January 2 in the Department of Population Protection of the region.

"A detachment of the Novgorod Region Fire Service continues to dismantle and spill the school building in the village of Bogoslovo in the Pestovsky district," reads a post on the VKontakte social network.

It is clarified that due to the significant size of the building, individual fires still occur in different parts of the facility.

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