The immediate investigation of responsibilities for the explosion at the 9th primary school in Serres that led to the death of an 11-year-old and the injury of two more students, requested by the Serres prosecutor.
The explosion occurred in the old oil burner after work to replace it with a geothermal system. The deputy mayor of Technical Works of the Serres municipality, Giorgos Nychtopatis, explained that the school "was going to change from an oil burner to a geothermal burner," and investigations will be made into what caused the explosion of the old burner. "The project contractor was at the school and not the boiler maintainer during today's work," the deputy mayor also noted.
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The director of the school, Nikolaos Tsiotsios, speaking to APE-MPE, stressed that the school unit recently installed, through NSRF, a geothermal system for heating the building, in order to replace the oil boiler. He said he disagreed with this project as it was not a proposal of the school community.
For a tragic incident that cost the life of the student, the director of the 9th Primary School of Serres said that the engineer in charge of the project had informed that due to a failure in the new heating system the school should be heated as before, that is, with oil.
"While the contractor was supposed to come on Saturday," said Mr. Tsiotsios, "and he had to come on Saturday, because I explained to them thousands of times that I do not allow them to do work during school hours, but I found no support for this neither from the Primary Education nor from the municipality. They generally came whenever they wanted and left whenever they wanted. They finally came today to make the arrangement and told us that from now on we will not turn on the oil boiler as the school will now run on geothermal."
"The boiler room exploded because apparently they did not release the oil boiler and left it running normally. I was told they had released it. I cannot attribute the explosion anywhere else because it was the boiler that exploded," the principal argues, concluding, "I had been arguing about this project from the beginning and had sent the documents not to do the work while the school was open. Unfortunately, I had no support from any body."
Source: in.gt
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