During Thursday, a gas pipe exploded in San Martínexactly at the crossroads of the streets Reconquista and Professor Aguer. The incident caused a lot of damage and generated a fire that left two injured and multiple damagesin addition to evacuated people.
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The burst occurred at the corner of Reconquista and Professor Aguernear the Chilavert station, in Villa Ballester. Julianone of the victims of the incident, He gave his testimony and said: “My whole house burst. It was truly crazy, a horror movie. My mother was saved because she was not, but his room exploded. If she was there, she would die. My house was destroyed, everything burned. I lost my home and my cat.
As for the people affected, one of them She was rushed to Thompson Hospital.because he had superficial wounds, but within hours they discharged him. The other was attended to by the UOM and was kept under observation.
Civil Defense, Medical Emergency Service, traffic and Citizen Protection were the services that intervened to help with the situation. Furthermore, the local firefighters collaborated to control the fire and Find the origin of the explosion.
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What the gas supplier company said about the pipe explosion in San Martín
The gas distributor, Naturgyexplained: “A backhoe machine from a company that outsourced the municipality, ripped out a pipe in the gas network and caused a leak, fire and subsequent explosion”
Then, they commented on what the repair of the pipe would be like: “To repair this leak you have to cut the four corner valves. That is what is being done now. We have all the staff working around the clock to repair it as soon as possible. We start to press the pipes, but it takes a while because it is a complex task.”
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