2023-04-24 19:16:29
The Fire Department fights this afternoon a fierce fire in the quiet part of the building Iron Mountain deposit, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas. The place is remembered for an accident that occurred in 2014, in which 10 people died.
The authorities requested to remove the personnel from the interior “in danger of collapse”said police sources.
“A crew is attacking (the fire) from the intersection of Benito Quinquela Martín and Azara and another, from the intersection of Gaspar Melchor Jovellanos and Benito Quinquela Martín,” they added, while indicating that “the fire breaks through the roof and the riser of the deposit, in an extension of 60 x 20 meters in an irregular way«.
They also indicated that “all personnel are removed from the interior of the warehouse in the event of a collapse”, since “it is visualized through the drones placed that the fire penetrated the entire roof.”
The front and middle part of the tank roof “partially gave way”they consigned.
The head of SAME, Alberto Crescenti, told this agency that “There are no fatalities, injuries or evacuees at the moment”, and that a mobile is working in the place. In addition, he pointed out that “a lot of fire load, flames and smoke” are observed.
Civil Defense, Auxiliary Guard and City Logistics teams are present at the site.
At the moment, the causes of the fire could not be established, due to the amount of smoke.
Why the Iron Mountain Company Building is Remembered
On February 5, 2014, a fire broke out in the warehouse that the Iron Mountain firm had at Azara 1245, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, and where bank files of large companies are safeguarded.
This caused the metal structure that supported the roof to begin to give way and collapse a wall, causing the death of 10 firefighters.
On April 12, Judge Fabiana Palmaghini sent the case in which the fire is being investigated to an oral and public trial, a file in which There are 18 defendants, including company executives and former officials of the General Directorate of Inspection and Control of the Buenos Aires governmentas well as an Iron Mountain security employee who was on duty when the fire started.
The victims of that accident were Leonardo Day, Anahí Garnica, Eduardo Conesa, Damián Véliz, Maximiliano Martínez, Juan Monticelli, José Luis Méndez Araujo, Sebastián Campos, Pedro Báricola and Franco Ambrosiwho were crushed to death.
With information from Telam
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