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The Decalogue of his findings for the catastrophic fire of Mati was published by the research team of the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens under the direction of the professor Efthimis Lekkas after an initial badysis of the data
As it was noted, inter alia, the early warning, which contributed to the large number of victims, is due to the rapid lateral spread of fire
More precisely:
1. This is a typical case of fire in a wild urban interface (WUI), where the highest probability of human loss is recorded in the Greek world and in the world. Especially in Greece, such cases are numerous.
2. Strong west winds, local velocities, and even more than 90 mm per hour, played a very important role in the rapid transmission of the descending spread
. The rapid lateral spread of the fire was probably the main reason for the early warning, which contributed to the large number of casualties
4. It has been observed that mainly houses and buildings were elevated or with floors, with fewer losses on the ground floor and in the basement, a typical example of crown fires [19659002] 5. Based on the testimonies being badyzed, it appears that the population near the beach was informed of the fire by people who evacuated the western part of the settlement of Mati, already affected rather than in the form of an early warning. . This shows that was a time of almost no warning and a reaction
6. From field research, weaknesses in the construction of houses with sensitive points on the roof, frames and other parts that contributed to their destruction were found . Their improvement may have had positive effects in terms of vulnerability to fire
7. It is important to note that this is the special urbanism of the colony, which acted as a "trap" for the people who tried to evacuate. Some of its important features were: narrow streets, many dead ends, particularly long building blocks, with no possibility of lateral leakage
8. Based on systematically badyzed testimonies, traffic jams, contributed to the impact, due to panic and high concentration of population (residents and visitors / tourists who probably did not know the geography of the region). ] 9. The morphology of the littoral made difficult the access to the beach in most points (lagoons), the limited access to the beaches, which in combination with the low visibility and the muddy atmosphere contributed to the encapsulation
. Unexpected possible behavior of the fire due to change in the type of vegetation The fire started with areas that had been burned in the past and went into an area that did not burn. had not been burned recently with a high concentration of fuel and, as a result, its behavior was much more explosive. , s, id) {
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