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Ricardo Saadi, head of the federal police, made this announcement at a press conference during which he dismissed the arson.
"The fire was declared in the auditorium and the main cause was the installation of air conditioning," he explained, explaining that the system did not meet the recommendations of the manufacturer regarding the use of circuit breakers and individual grounding devices.
The auditorium, located on the ground floor of the former four-storey imperial palace, was the first room destroyed by the fire, which took six hours to contain it .
According to the survey, with the exception of fire extinguishers, the museum did not have the equipment needed to contain the fire, including alarms, fire stations or fire doors.
The National Museum Fire of September 2, 2018 has erased much of the collection, bringing a blow to the main showcase of Brazil's anthropological heritage and history.
Since then, dozens of anthropologists, archaeologists and paleontologists have spent nine hours a day, six days a week, combing ashes and charred structure. The facade is still standing, although all that was inside and most of its roof was destroyed.
Among the relics found are fragments of "Luzia" – the fossilized remains, 12,000 years old, of a human being considered the centerpiece of the museum's collection.
There is also a five-meteorite called Bendego that survived the fire, as well as fragments of a dinosaur, Maxakalisaurus topai.
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