The preliminary export report prepared by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Aladağ, in the southern province of Adana, states that the fire exit of the building in which 11 children and a worker died at the recent fire had no door handle.
At the report, the occupational safety specialist states that the first floor of the building was made of PVC, a plastic polymer, that it did not have a door handle, that it was an outward opening door but nobody could get out of the building from this door since it had no door handles and the door could not be opened.
The electrical specialist registered that the fire might have started at the distribution panel behind the main electric panel of the building and the fire might have out broken due to formation of an electric arc stemming from wear of the interrupter or its malfunctioning, and its deflagration.
The report also reveals that of the 12 people died at the fire, seven corps were found in a room at the second floor, four in a room next to the fire exit and the other at the first floor.
THE NEW STATEMENT OF THE MAYOR
Hüseyin Sözlü, the mayor of the Adana province, in reply to his adjunct mayor Veysi Kaynak who stated that the fire exit was not locked, stated the following:
‘Our fire brigade crew is an expert of this job. The students had climbed up to the top floor. They went towards the doors at that floor. They had also pressed against the fire exit door. But the door was not opened. That might be due to the PVC door’s melting and swelling, being affected from the fire. The door should have not been made of PVC but it it should have been resistant to fire’
IN ADANA 80 OUT OF 100 STUDENT DORMITORIES BELONGS TO SÜLEYMANCILAR
The mayor Sözlü stated that there are around 100 other cult related dormitories in the Adana province and 80 of them belong to the cult Süleymancılar.
