The Volunteer Firefighters and Civil Defense, A crew from the gas supply company also intervened, trying to repair the leak.
At the beginning of the week, The Municipality of San Martín had begun repaving the streets. Today, one of the excavator machines broke the pipe that crossed under the asphalt.
After the explosion, Neighbors self-evacuated, but two people were injured and were transferred to the local hospital. In turn, some pets ran away and their owners went looking for them in the neighborhood.
One of the houses was destroyed
“My whole house burst. It was truly crazy, a horror movie. My mother was saved because she was not there, but his room exploded. If she was there, she would die,” said a neighbor in A24 and added that “My house was destroyed, everything burned. I lost my home and my cat”.
Mario Oyarzo, head of the Villa Ballester fire station, explained: “We are waiting for the gas people to cut off the service to extinguish the fire.. “They are looking for the valve to make the cut in the best way.”
