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Schools Won’t Have to Make Up 5 Days Lost in Industrial Fire
By: Associated Press
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PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia education officials say schools won’t have to make up five days lost because of a massive warehouse fire.
State Superintendent of Schools Steven Paine granted Wood County schools a waiver for the days lost in October due to the fire.
Wood County Schools Superintendent John Flint requested the state-required 180 days of instruction be reduced by five days.
The county’s schools closed because of air quality concerns from the fire. During that time officials conducted air quality tests and replaced filters in schools before classes resumed Oct. 30.
The blaze began Oct. 21 in the 420,000-square-foot property owned by Maryland-based Intercontinental Export Import Inc.
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