A gas leak followed by burst This Thursday a fire occurred in the Buenos Aires district of San Martin and left as balance at least two people injured and material damage to houses in the area.
The incident occurred at 1:02 p.m. at the intersection of Aguer and ReconquestIn the town of Villa Ballesterwhere a group of workers were fixing a pothole and, by accident, broke a gas master pipe with an excavator.
The firefighters attended the scene and six crews worked to put out the flames but after several hours they were still unable to control them, at the same time that a perimeter to protect neighbors.
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In this regard, the head of the Villa Ballester Volunteer Fire Station, Mario Oyarzoexplained that they were waiting for the gas company Naturgy “cut the street supply to be able to extinguish the fire,” and added: “They are looking for the valves where they can make the cuts in the best way.”
“Once they cut off the supply it will be produced instantly. I explained that the fire is not extinguished because we are doing two functions, because by throwing water we are creating a ventilation through the water and at the same time by letting it burn the gas does not accumulate,” he explained.
As for the neighbors, one of them, named Julian and who can be seen desperate in a video for being one of the main victims, detailed: “They broke an entire corner and at 12 noon today my whole house burst. I opened the door and there was all the rubble.” In statements to TNthe young man noted that “it was truly crazy, a terror movie what was experienced”, and revealed that his mother “was saved that she was not there, because everything in her room exploded”.
“I had to catch a neighbor who jumped off the first floor. It was crazy, there are two in the hospital“, he asserted, while insisting: “I want to see if my cats are inside”.
Regarding the repairs that the workers were making when they broke the gas pipe, the Villa Ballester delegation of the Buenos Aires municipality had reported that it was “patching works on Prof. Aguer, along 700 meters between Lafayette and Reconquista” within the framework of the “Plan for Patching and Repaving the main streets of the city”.
