One hundred thousand euros. The fire that devastated the music room of the Don Minzoni secondary school in Ravenna on April 2nd will cost the Municipality of Ravenna this much. This is established by a specific resolution of the Council, approved in recent days, taking into account the report drawn up by the Municipality’s technician who intervened to detect the damage after the fire.
The list is reported in the document: “damage to the false ceiling of the portico, to the shutters, to the fixtures of the music room and
to adjacent areas; the smoke and heat that developed also caused damage to the instruments, materials and devices in the music room and to the electrical system. Smoke invaded part of the school.”
The works necessary for the safety and restoration, as a matter of urgency, were entrusted to CEAR, regarding the “safety and isolation of the electrical system, verification of the fire detection system and the restoration of the door opening system smoke evacuators; removal of the shutters damaged by the heat of the fire, safety of the fixtures, removal of the broken fixtures and glass and replacement of the emergency exit broken down by the Fire Brigade during their intervention; removal of the soot-soaked and deteriorated false ceilings in the music room in the secretariat and in the atrium corridor; compartmentalization of the rooms through the supply and installation of a plasterboard wall to separate the area affected by the fire from the rest of the building; cleaning and suitable whitewashing with suitable anti-smoking products in the corridor area above the secretariat of the main atrium most affected by smoking”.
BENPOWER SRL, specialized in post-fire sanitization, took care of the removal and disposal of debris and burnt material and the clearing of school furniture and equipment and damaged musical instruments present in the music room, in addition to cleaning, dusting, washing, sanitation of school premises and the canteen, while Herambiente is in charge of waste disposal.
As you will remember, it was the afternoon of the last day of the Easter holidays, when a pile of pallets and material to be disposed of – mainly expired masks and disinfectants from the Covid era – caught fire in the green area outside the school and overlooking the classroom of music. The entire room was filled with smoke and flames, with devastating effects on everything inside and also on elements of the structures.
The fire was promptly put out by the Fire Brigade and the students extended their holidays for a few more days: to allow the rooms to be cleaned and ventilated from the smoke that had crept in everywhere, the school reopened only on the following Monday.
