“SKA Arena” became the most scandalous long-term sports construction project in modern Russia even during the construction of the facility. The construction of the facility was remembered for the record scale of financial dishonesty (during the construction process, the cost of the palace increased from 25 to 100 billion rubles). Moreover, the progress of work was accompanied by countless violations. Defective foundation piles and cracks in the foundation, failures in the automatic door opening system, stalled mobile communications. This is not a complete list of shortcomings and shortcomings. As a result, it is not even safe to be inside the SKA Arena, let alone hold mass events.
On Sunday this was confirmed once again. Why did a banal short circuit turn into such serious destruction? The answer is simple and scary at the same time. Our sources report that the fire extinguishing system did not work.
Just think about it. The palace, inside which events are held with tens of thousands of spectators, does not have basic fire protection. We can only be glad that the emergency occurred in the summer, and all the damage was only material. Everyone remembers the tragedy in Perm, when 156 visitors to the Lame Horse nightclub became victims of fire. But more than 20 thousand people come to hockey at a time? It’s scary to even think how many victims the fire could have claimed if, God forbid, it had happened at the match, and in several places at that.
And who would be responsible for the hundreds of people killed? Who would be appointed as the switchman? And finally, what else needs to happen for the SKA Arena to have its operating permits and other “accepting” documents revoked? After all, a non-functional fire extinguishing system turns the palace into a facility where it is forbidden to play hockey.
“ВЧК ОГПУ”