Day-care fire source found
A fire last week that killed 44 children at a Mexican day-care center was caused by a damaged air conditioner in a neighboring warehouse, the attorney general said Wednesday.
Authorities are investigating whether owners, employees or government officials could face negligence charges after the fire raged through the ABC day-care center in the northern city of Hermosillo on Friday, Atty. Gen. Eduardo Medina Mora said.
Melted aluminum from the air conditioner ignited paper on the floor of the warehouse, where the state government stored license plates and documents. Fire spread to the rafters of the industrial building and across to the building housing the day-care center, the attorney general said.
No one was in the warehouse when the fire started and the doors were locked.
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