Eleven years of the ABC nursery fire in Sonora

Manifestations, monuments, days of mourning but there are no arrested for the ABC case.Photo: Courtesy.

This June 5, 2020, 11 years of the fire of a building where the ABC nursery, in the city of Hermosillo, where 49 children died, 49 children were completed, where 49 children died.

The establishment that was not suitable for sheltering the 176 minors, who cared for 50 employees, was shared by a archive winery of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Sinaloa.

The nursery had an authorized capacity to house 196 minors and worked under the subrogation scheme of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), infants' care services were carried out by individuals.

At 2:45 pm on that June 5, the fire began at the Finance Winery, which spread to the nursery and progressed quickly because the roof had a polyurethane coating and in the multipurpose area there was an awningplastic (PVC).That afternoon ended with the death of 49 children between 10 months and 4 years old.104 more were injured or exposed to the inhalation of toxic gases.

Due to their very small maintenance conditions, weak materials and lack of emergency exits, the tragedy was created, where the children of the children arrived at the site of the incident, as well as neighbors and patrols, made perforations to the building to take out and transfer to theChildren to hospitals.

Once años del incendio de guardería ABC en Sonora

Other subsequent investigations determined that the nursery did not cover with the established security requirements such as: the existence of smoke detectors, the signage of evacuation routes, the minimum amount of extinguishers and the number of emergency exits.

They also pointed out that if the nursery had complied with the regulations and the safety requirements, the damages caused by the fire would have been much lower or had not occurred.

The initial expert opinion of the then PGR (Attorney General's Office), began that the overheating of a cooling system occurred in the vehicle control winery, which was melted and caused and caused a fire when falling on more than five tons of file.It happened while the children made the nap of the three in the afternoon.

Eduardo Bours, the then governor of Sonora, in a working meeting in the United States, launched a message to the tragedy.

The president of Mexico in that 2009, Felipe Calderón and the First Lady, Margarita Zavala, visited some of the children who survived the fire and promised to investigate the facts and promised to investigate the facts.

It transcended in the media days after one of the owners of the nursery, Marcia Matilde Altagracia Gómez del Campo, was a relative of Margarita Zavala.

A series of arrests that over the years have remained nothing, cover tragedy fading, not even subsequent expert opinions have clarified why the fire.

The case reached the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) that in an independent investigation revealed that there was a general disorder in the transfer of children's stay contracts by the IMSS, which had resulted in intermittent or null supervision and surveillanceIn these spaces.

Even authorities decreed on June 5 as National Duel Day.

Of the 22 apprehension orders turned until 2016 none of the detainees and sentenced remains in jail.The case has been forgotten.

Only to different public institutions developed an official standard that culminated in the publication of NOM-009-SEGOB-2015 PENSITION, PREVENTION AND MITTIIGATION MEASURES OF RISK IN CHILD CARE CENTERS IN THE PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND MIXED MODE.