Fire in Milan, causes: hypothesis of a short circuit in the building via Antonini

A short circuit on the 15th floor, perhaps at the origin of the fire that devoured the building in via Antonini in Milan. Today in the search for the causes of the fire, the investigators of the Milan prosecutor’s office are working on various hypotheses, but at the moment they are waiting for the technical reports before proceeding. For this reason, the experts of the Fire Brigade investigative unit have in the meantime arrived from Rome. Even if, as assured by the fire brigade, the structure is not likely to collapse, now there are fears of possible internal collapses. The external metal structure, on the other hand, will most likely have to be dismantled. The fire spread rapidly throughout the building due to the ‘chimney effect’ generated by the space between the reinforced concrete structure and the metal roof. A cavity of a few centimeters in which the air inside accelerated the spread of the flames, which quickly devoured the external structure and the building, as investigators ascertained at the moment on the disaster that took place yesterday in the southern area of ​​Milan. The deputy prosecutor of Milan, Tiziana Siciliano, after a new inspection in via Antonini with the fire brigade, will open a file with the hypothesis of negligent disaster or negligent fire. Meanwhile, there is no danger of collapses. “The building is not in danger of falling – the Milan fire brigade operations center told Adnkronos – the supporting structure has not been damaged, the cladding has burned but there is no danger of it collapsing”. “The building is still being shut down – they underline – we are still in place with all the teams and we are trying to climb the floors, which remain hot. We have difficulty climbing to ascertain that all have actually been evacuated. For now we have come up to it. on the sixth floor “.