Although the Fire Chief indicated that the cause of the fire is unknown, the woman who lives there indicated that it could be due to a poorly extinguished cigarette from a neighbor behind who fell on the mattress, since there is no type of electrical installation that could have caused it.
A neighbor who was passing by heard the screams of the girl who lives in the house across the street and, without hesitation, was able to open the gate to enter. managing to get the box spring that caught on to the sidewalk.
Álvarez assured that the property did not suffer any material damage and that the fire did not spread. Being cement walls, the only fear was that the flames would reach the top of a ceiling that has tongues, which caught fire but did not result in major damage.
Centenario firefighters received an alert from Police Station 52 and went to the scene immediately. “They called us to say that there was a house fire, a few minutes later they called again and said that it was not a house fire but a mattress, that the situation was under control,” said the Fire Chief and clarified that they still attended to control the temperature of the place as a precautionsince at that time there was no more fire thanks to the help of neighbors who came with buckets of water.
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Digital Centennial
According to the media Digital Centennialthe owner of the home was moved by what happened and remarked that wants to thank the neighbor who came in to helpwithout hesitation. “I want to give him a hug, he saved my house, he entered the middle of the fire and started taking everything out, because of him it didn’t catch on fire anymore,” he said and said that the person was wearing black shorts and a light blue sweatshirt, but that they couldn’t get more data from that moment of nervousness.
It was also learned that another neighbor on the block approached to offer help after the incident. Fortunately, the rooms and dining room were not affected and there were no injuries. As to material damage, It was only the clothes and the mattress and a part of the ceiling of the main entrance.
Another scare and fire in a transformer
Patricio Álvarez told LMNeuquén that there was also another start of fire on the same street of Centenario, Guatemala.
It was a transformer that was next to a home but it did not have much relevance, since it was a warm-up of the equipment.
