Milan, vast fire to the ortomer market: it is malicious, caused by a pyromane filmed by surveillance cameras
The stake in an area made up of three sheds, for a total area of 2500 square meters. Caused great damage
A fire of malicious origin was stuck in the night in the vast area ofOrthomercato of Milan, owned by the Sogemi company. A'high cloud of smoke She got up, visible from most of the city. The flames were contained by Numerous teams of firefighters intervened, that they worked all night. The stake caused large damage, But luckily without involving people.
The stake was stuck by a Pyromaniac, filmed by the surveillance cameras of the Management Company, SOCEMI, whose images will be acquired by the carabinieri. The manager would be a man of Egyptian origin; The reasons for the gesture is still not clear. According to what emerged from the movies, he would have downloaded some pallets from an elevator trolley, then sprinkle them with petrol and trigger the stake. The Milan prosecutor will open a file in the next few hours. The firefighters investigate the fireworks with the fire investigation, already in contact with the investigators.
The flames hit in particular an area made up of three sheds for a total area of 2500 square meters, used for the loading/unloading close to the environments used for the refrigerator cells. The firefighters, despite the complexity of the scenario, managed to contain the flames and above all to prevent them from reaching the area of fuel distributors. The action of the numerous teams intervened (fifteen in all) it also was worth containing and lowering the cloud of fumes and debris. It was also monitored the air with the staff of the NBCR nucleus. In the roofs of the three partially collapsed warehouses were found traces of asbestos. The number of positive samples, according to what has been learned, is small and this does not make the health of the firefighters who have operated on. Excluding fears for public health.
The alarm, a few minutes before one, was given by some workers And employees, who were right in the storage area of a private company, at work on some pallets with a forklift. The point, however,, it would not see the presence of cylinders, electrical systems or other that could have created a trigger. In the past, episodes like spite and small vandalisms Between society and families of workers, who however had never generated striking facts.
