Video | Technical defect appears to cause a fire ‘vluchtelingenvilla’ in Twello – De Stentor

TWELLO – The fire in the vluchtelingenvilla in Twello seems to have originated in the heating system in the attic. The technical recherce is this afternoon around twelve o’clock began with research into the cause of the fire in the villa.

On the Oude Rijksstraatweg 38 in Twello there were fourteen ‘status athletes’ (asylum seekers in the Netherlands are allowed to continue to be housed. This was in the first instance, arson is not excluded. But according to Jan Miedendorp de Bie, former owner of the house, the fire presumably due to a technical problem arise. ,,The first flames at a quarter to four from the roof, exactly above the point where the central heating is”.

Upper floor
That heating was after twelve years of vacancy still in the house to guard against further moisture, and decay. The fire destroyed the attic, it expanded thereafter to the lower floor, where the fire, eventually the flames and managed to extinguish. On the ground floor was not fire, however, is the havoc there, large by water damage. All doors and windows are there even very. That makes the likelihood of arson is already a bit smaller: an arsonist is more likely on the floor than in an attic like to strike.

Misconception

Other media reported that the police already went out of arson. That is incorrect. ,,The police close in case of fire, arson is never out,” says police spokesperson Hilde from the Brink. The police asks any other media now which is to take back that they went out of arson. Only at the beginning of the evening, more clarity is expected about the manner in which the fire originated.

Recovery

According to the security region, the villa as well as lost to be considered, carpenters construction company ” Together, which this morning fences to place around the detached villa thinks that the building can be retained: the walls are still intact and up to and including the gables standing. Is recovery might, think they. The villa was last year for 400,000 euros by the municipality bought and had for the same amount of money to be converted to apartments for refugees. That renovation had not yet begun. It is still unclear how the municipality of Voorst the ‘status athletes’ now think to catch.

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