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St Albans Music School, which had been subjected to a suspected arson attack and closed last week, was not reopened due to asbestos concerns.
The school was already closed after the fire in one of its rehearsal and storage buildings. The officials were planning to reopen it Thursday. However, it’s getting delayed as the fire caused an asbestos danger.
St Albans Music School shares the same site as Garden Fields Primary School in Townsend Drive.
Apart from some money loss, the only problem faced after the fire was the disposal of the asbestos. Some expensive musical instruments and 2,000 pieces of sheet music were lost in the blaze. Some of them were more than 100 years old!
Though the fire spread from the building to a neighbouring shed, it caused only a superficial damage to the nearby school building.
The fire was tackled by Nineteen firefighters, from St Albans, Wheathampstead and Harpenden stations for approximately an hour in the early hours of last Friday morning.
Angela Gilby, headteacher of St Albans Music School thanked the Almighty, as the danger happened not in the term time. “The effects would have been "dreadful" if it had happened during term time,” she said. The school remained closed until the weekend.
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