'People started to despair', says Enem candidate after exam was interrupted due to fire risk in Amapá

The administration of the Enem tests this Sunday (8) at Unifap, in Macapá, was interrupted after a fire hit the vegetation close to the exam site.

The fire started after a power outage. When the supply was restored, a transformer cable broke and hit the dry vegetation in the region.

Candidates from 8 rooms left the building and reported empty fire extinguishers. The coordination advised affected participants to request the exam to be reapplied to Inep.

Candidates taking the National High School Examination (Enem) test this Sunday (8), in the postgraduate block of the Federal University of Amapá (Unifap), in Macapá, had their application interrupted after a fire hit an area of ​​vegetation close to the location.

The incident occurred after a power outage in the region. When the supply was restored, a cable connected to a transformer, located in front of the block where the tests were administered, broke.

The energized cable caused a fire in the dry vegetation in the area. The flames were quickly controlled, but Enem coordination decided to interrupt the test as a safety measure for candidates.

The coordination advised affected participants to request the exam to be reapplied, in accordance with the rules set out by the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep).

In videos circulating on social media, the candidates reveal that students from eight classrooms had to leave and that the projector in one of them caught fire.

The candidates tried to use the fire extinguishers but they claim that they were all empty, and that firefighters from the fire department had to put out the fire with water.

Emerson Madson was one of the students at the scene. According to him, the situation happened when he had 50% of the test completed, having even finished writing it.

"I heard a bang, and people started to despair. The coordination of the postgraduate block asked us to come out of the rooms because it had caught fire and the firefighter hadn't arrived yet, so the police came to contain all the commotion that was happening here", he reported.

The candidate informed that he is feeling aggrieved and that the Enem coordination in Amapá informed that candidates should go to the Inep website to request to take the test.

"We don't know how it will turn out, in reality this procedure [...] we were harmed and we are being dismissed, as per guidance from the general coordination of the application of the enem test", he said.

g1 tried to locate the Inep coordination in Amapá but was not located.