Yup’ik artifacts spared in Bethel school fire

Emergency crews remain onsite at the Kilbuck campus in Bethel after flames broke out early this morning, demolishing the school.
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“The actual immersion school is flat. The immersion school itself k-6 is not standing.”
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Joshua Gill is with the Lower Kuskokwim School District. The immersion school is a charter elementary Yup’ik school.
Also destroyed are the operation and maintenance sections of the campus and the lockers holding the student