Fire in the port of Ancona, the prosecutor opens an investigation: the cloud was toxic

The cloud caused by the fire that swept through the shipyard area of ​​the port of Ancona on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday was toxic. It was toxic because that smoke, thick and black more than the night itself, came from the combustion of at least 2 products: the polyurethane solid present in sheds and silicon of photovoltaic panels. The former is used in various fields as a permic insulator, while the latter is a component of the photovoltaic panels present on the roofs of the sheds that have been destroyed. Two materials that, in themselves, have no contraindications but that, in a combustion process, would be harmful to those who breathe them. This is one of the first results of the investigation opened at this time by the Public Ministry that, through the Chief Prosecutor Monica Garulli (photo below left) and the pm holder of the file Irene Adelaide Bilotta (photo below right), investigate the fire in the port of Ancona. For now, there are no registered suspects but, as a pro forma fact, the crime of arson is hypothesized.

Fire extinguished and without asbestos

So we investigated, but we await the first comments from the Ancona fire brigade technicians, who even this morning, are busy putting out the sprouts present under the rubble. In reality, the fire goes out, but during the dismantling of the incinerated materials, there are still traces of open flames, which the firefighters put out immediately. According to the first findings of the Noe dei Carabinieri researchers, on the other hand, there would have been no trace of asbestos in the warehouses of the old Tubimar because, over the years, local businessmen had claimed all the warehouses.

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Photovoltaic panels: “Very recent maintenance”

Witness the fact that there were photovoltaic panels from the Weservice Soc. Co. company. of Ancona, whose CEO, Davide Picciafuoco, has already denied the possibility that the fire could have arisen due to a malfunction of the photovoltaic system: “We would like to make known that this hypothesis is very unlikely, if not impossible, taking into account The fact that the plant, at night, has no voltage on the roof, since direct current is generated only during the day. We also specify that the maintenance carried out recently ended on September 12. It was about the damage caused due to a recent hailstorm and that last night we intervened to isolate the plant, avoiding the generation of tension at dawn ”.

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The summit at the Prosecutor’s Office

In fact, to date there is no evidence of the causes of the accident and the expertise of the fire department engineers will have to be awaited, who will be able to begin to carry out the first reconnaissance only when all the extinguishing operations have been completed in the more than 40 thousand square meters of premises destroyed. . Meanwhile, a summit is scheduled for this afternoon at the Doric Public Ministry between the Judiciary, Judicial Police and Firefighters precisely to organize the investigative work in the coming days and answer the most important question: what generated the maxi fire in the port of Ancona?

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