A report broadcast Sunday night by TV Globo TV show, Fantástico, revealed that one of the survivors of the fire (which ended with the death of Friday , at the Flamengo Training Center, ten athletes from the club's core categories, the Urubu nest in Rio de Janeiro) stated in his testimony to civilian police investigators that there was some sort of "gambiarra" in one of the air-conditioning units of the house in which they lived – six containers converted into dormitories and which were in a part of the place that should serve as parking. The O Globo newspaper portal reported that a preliminary badysis had revealed that the flames had started by a short circuit in the air conditioner of the sixth dwelling – it is still not certain that
According to the survivor from the tragedy, the air conditioner would be smaller than the hole in the wall. The remaining space would have been filled with pieces of wood, bubble wrap and foam. The program asked a security expert to comment on the report. Moacyr Duarte, said that this may have contributed to the formation of cracks in the air and in the progress of the flames.
