Three victims of Carmel fire could have escaped, police report finds (Haaretz)

Three police officers who were killed in Carmel forest fire two weeks ago, when they tried to help a prison guards bus caught in the flames could have saved themselves, but instead chose to stay behind, a report on the fatal incident revealed Wednesday.

Burned out shell of the buses which the prison administration cadets who were killed while on their way to help evacuate Damon prison near.

Ahuva Tomer Haifa police chief drove behind the bus which burned down in flames with Lior Boker, police officer who was Chief of police for the area north of Israel and Yitzhak Melina operations.

More than 17,000 residents, including the 600 prisoners were evacuated the fire was uncontrollable rage, devastating hundreds hectares of pine forest before scanning the slopes of the Carmel plateau in the most important and most deadly fire in the history of Israel.

The report, based on the testimony of eyewitnesses collected by created special police investigative unit after the fatal incident claimed that Boker was the officer who had asked the driver to enable autour bus bus, instead continue and perhaps to escape the flames.

When a fallen tree blocked road, bus was trapped in the flames. 43 people were killed in the Inferno.

The investigation unit has also been reported that 12 37 guards killed in the fire died of a sudden heat and not from the actual fire.

Carmel fire deaths amounted to 43 (Jerusalem Post)

  
Photo by: channel 10 a prison guards aboard the bus which was engulfed in flames on the first day of the Carmel fire more than a week ago death noon Saturday at the Haifa Rambam hospital.

Commander Deputy shift Jalal Bisan, 29 of Kfar Jat leaves a wife and two children. It will be updated rest Sunday afternoon in the cemetery of Kfar Jat.

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His death brought the number of deaths at 37 of those on the bus to go to Damun prison to help her escape, killed when their bus in flames engulf speed fire.

Guards participated in training courses again which started this year, which has received training to improve the treatment of prisoners and to become administrators in the prison system.

Carmel fire burned some 50 000 dunums, destroyed hundreds of homes and 43 dead.   Subscribe to our newsletter to receive new updates directly to your E-mail address