A fire happened in a boarding school in Novgorod region. The information about ignition was received at about 6.02 a.m. Moscow time. According to the provisional data, there are no victims among the school pupils and staff. "Presumably, children are at home for holidays, at the time of fire there were no children in the school", said Russian Emergency Ministry official. For investigation of the fire causes the operational investigative group was called from Emergency Ministry regional office. It jas been the third large fire in Novgorod educational institutions during the last three years. In Demiynsk the school of art burnt down on April 22, 2004, and the school in Oskochi burnt down on April 28, 2003. Both fires caused no victims.