The fire in the Odessa mental hospital: the hearth was in the room for drying clothes
KIEV. June 11. UNN. The fire that occurred in the Odessa psychiatric hospital, was in the room for drying clothes. This was announced by the Deputy Director of Department of prevention of emergency situations Ruslan Buhanets during a briefing on the situation with the liquidation of the fire at the Odessa medical center of mental health, the correspondent of UNN.
“The fire was not in the room where the treatment took place, and under cover of so-called utility for drying clothes and storage of various household items,” said Buhanets.
According to preliminary data, the cause of the fire is entering an external source of ignition. According to the Buhanets, it is not associated with faulty hardware.
As explained by the Loaf, adding an external source of ignition – it can be as intentional contact with the source of combustion, that is, arson, and perhaps inadvertently – for example, Smoking.
According to the Buhanets, in accordance with applicable law and the instructions that were provided by the government in respect of this institution has carried out state supervision and control in the form of checks of fire-prevention condition.
“They were held in 2017, 2018, and the last check was in March of this year … Since the first check, more than half of the observations have been fixed,” – said Buhanets.
So began the process of installing a fire alarm, which, according to him, in the part of the institutions where there was a fire already was installed and worked.
In addition, it was given the order of the electrical equipment of the building, conducted the exercises.
We will remind, in the evening of 10 June, the police and gschs in Odessa region received a message about the fire in the 7th ward of Odessa regional medical center mental health. As a result of incident four persons died on the spot, two more died in hospitals.