Classrooms on fire as firefighters attend to school fire

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Vuci Methodist Primary School on fire on Friday, February 15, 2019. Picture: TIMOCI VULA

FIREFIGHTERS are attending to a blaze that destroyed about four classrooms at Vuci Methodist Primary School this evening.

More than 10 firefighters and two trucks tried to douse the raging flames that severely threatened the neighbouring Eadys Store along Vuci Road, just minutes outside Nausori town.

For a good seven to 10 minutes, the firefighters managed to slow down the flames, by this time only leaving behind the charred skeleton of the new wooden block.

Workers of Eadys Store also wasted no time as they jumped to the roof of their building with hose pipes to douse the flames.

Hundreds of residents in the heavily populated locality gathered at the scene, majority of whom send their children to this school.

Police and fire officers are still at the scene.

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