FIRES IN secondary schools result in losses of property and contents of buildings, and from business interruption, which can relatively easily be quantified. However, one of the greatest losses cannot be put into financial terms. This is the interruption to the education of the pupils and the loss of their school and project work, and examination papers. Even without estimating these educational losses, fires in secondary schools tend, on average, to be nearly double the cost of the average large loss fire in other business sectors. Fires in secondary schools account for 3% of all large fires in terms of numbers, but 5.7% of the estimated financial losses.
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