Toolamba Primary School fire

The small hamlet of Toolamba in North East Victoria has been rocked after its local primary school was devastated by fire in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Incident name: Bridge Road     
Date: 03/02/2010
Region: 22
Brigades: Cooma, Merrigum, Moorilim, Mooroopna, Murchison, North West Mooroopna, Rushworth, Shepparton, Tatura, Toolamba.
At 4am on the morning of Wednesday 3 February, residents were woken by sounds of explosions, and fire crews were on scene within minutes of the first call to 000.
"It took a good hour to get the blaze under control - we used breathing apparatus and the usual equipment," Toby Corbett, CFA volunteer and Incident Controller said yesterday.
Ninety per cent of the building has been lost. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined but it is being treated as not suspicious. Total damage estimates to the building are $2.4 million.
Detective Senior Constable Paul Shortis from the Shepparton Police Crime Investigation Unit was on scene yesterday morning with fellow police and said it may be some days before the cause of the fire is identified.
In the words of one Toolamba resident, the building is easy to replace. It's the memorabilia that the students and teachers have collected over the years and the history of the building that have been lost forever.
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