On Thursday afternoon, a gas leak and explosions shocked the residents of San Martín, and the desperation in the face of a situation that seemed uncontrollable was recorded in videos of the neighbors. In one of them you can see how a young man laments because his cat had been locked in his apartment and could be caught by the flames.
“Call the fire department!” “There’s my cat!” he shouts. The testimony was found in the images that a neighbor recorded and were shared on social networks. The boy, faced with the impotence of the situation due to not being able to rescue his pet, repeatedly grabs his head and throws himself to the floor.
While this is happening, other people who are there ask him to move away from the place where the leak is. “Come skinny, let the firefighters come! Get the animals out!” a woman can be heard saying.
Finally, the young man’s cat could be rescued, although they are still searching for other animals that fled the scene as a result of the explosions and fire.
The situation occurred in Aguer and Reconquista, where a crew was working on repairs on a sidewalk and in the middle of that task they damaged a gas pipe, which generated the explosion that was felt for several blocks around. The flames, about three meters high, affected an apartment. After several hours of work, fire personnel controlled the flames and workers from the Naturgy company managed to close the leak.
