Fire in Iron Mountain: once again, the warehouse with sensitive documentation burns in Barracas

2023-04-24 21:31:07

Firefighters from the city of Buenos Aires are fighting a fire this Monday followingnoon in the back of the Iron Mountain warehouse, in Gaspar Jovellanos at 1300 in the Barracas neighborhood.

The building is remembered for the fire occurred there in 2014in which 10 people died and where there were still bank files of large companies.

Civil Defense, Auxiliary Guard and City Logistics teams work at the site.

Iron Mountain fire: what is known

“Iron Mountain is a ‘custody, protection and management of information and assets’ company that repeatedly burns down, self-destroying key information every time a legal case involving the rich and powerful advances,” explained Gabriela Cerruti, spokesperson for the Presidency.

In a post on social networks, the official remarked that “it is not a coincidence” but that “it is mafia capitalism”, referring to the fact that this Monday followingnoon has a history of the fire that occurred nine years ago.

According to police sources regarding the fire, all the personnel inside were evacuated “because of the danger of a collapse.”

“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,” the sources added, while indicating that “the fire is intruding through the roof and the amount of the deposit, in an extension of 60 x 20 meters in an irregular shape”.

They also indicated that “all personnel are removed from inside the warehouse in case of danger of collapse”, since “it is visualized through the drones that the fire penetrated the entire roof.”

The front and middle part of the roof of the warehouse “partially gave way,” the sources reported.

The head of Same, Alberto Crescenti, indicated that “there are no fatalities, injuries or evacuees at the moment”, and that a mobile is working on the scene.

He pointed out that “a lot of fire load, flames and smoke” are observed.

Iron Mountain Fire: What Happened in 2014

On February 5, 2014, he sparked a fire at the warehouse that the Iron Mountain firm He had at Azara 1245, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas, and where the bank files of large companies are kept.

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 employees of the General Directorate of Inspection and Control of the Buenos Aires government, as well as an Iron Mountain security employee who was on duty when the fire started.

* With information from Agencia Télam

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