Asbestos found at Catherine Junior School, in Leicester, after roof fire
A Leicester school has been contaminated by asbestos after a fire earlier this week.
The fire destroyed the gym and damaged classrooms at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, and pupils had to be evacuated shortly after 2pm on Tuesday. More than 60 firefighters helped put out the flames.
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Fire crews tackle the blaze at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, on Tuesday
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Fire crews tackle the blaze at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, on Tuesday
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Fire crews tackle the blaze at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, on Tuesday
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Fire crews tackle the blaze at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, on Tuesday
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Fire crews tackle the blaze at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, on Tuesday
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Fire crews tackle the blaze at Catherine Junior School, in Brandon Street, Belgrave, Leicester, on Tuesday
The city council said that the site must be decontaminated before an assessment of the damage can take place, and this is could take some weeks.
Parents of pupils at the school are being contacted by the council to update them and it said it is working with the school's headteacher Joy Denning to make arrangements to get the pupils back into school as quickly as possible.
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Coun Vi Dempster said: "We are very aware this situation is putting great pressures on families and we are doing all we can to sort this out as quickly as possible, including talking to other schools and education providers in the area.
"We are sorry we can't give more information at this stage, but we will finalise arrangements to get children back into school and inform parents as soon as we can next week."
The city council is making emergency payments to parents whose children have lost coats and other items of clothing in the fire.
Council staff will be at Catherine Infant school today to administer these payments. The school is in the process of contacting parents, but anyone who hasn't heard from them can call in at the infant school this afternoon.
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Comments
by TheRutlandFox
Friday, November 02 2012, 9:22PM
“Anyone come up with a better way of repairing a bittumen flat roof as the odds of it going up during repairs seems pretty high judging by all the previous roof repair fires over the years
I would hope that if it is prooved to have been casued by a contractor, the council tax payers will not end up with the bill
Also would it not be prudent to carry out this "dangerous" work without children in the building i.e at the weekend and hire a fire appliance in just in case. The cost of not doing this seems to be very high indeed
At work we have to have a fire marshall present for 24 hours after any welding work on many of our blue chip customers sites in case a fire should start and £5 million minimum insurance”
by Grant2010
Friday, November 02 2012, 7:39PM
“The dangers of asbestos are now well know yet big business via its puppy governments are still demanding less and less regulation and protection from prosecution.”