This afternoon, in the Caballito district of Buenos Aires, a pipe explosion on a public road at the intersection of Calle Ligros and Calle Formosa caused an evacuation due to strong gases and fire, and the fire spread to a height of 12 meters, leaving one injured person and several evacuees, but the fire chief said they had managed to reduce the height of the flames.
The man, who is of legal age, was taken to hospital with severe burns, but four mobile phones are currently at the scene trying to extinguish the fire and trace the other injured. The incident occurred while Edesur was working at a site where an electrical emergency had occurred and a Metrogas pipe had broken. Similarly, the conflict turned out to take at least an hour and a half.
Buenos Aires Fire Brigade officials reported that the same facility was relocated to Ligros 300 “due to a large gas leak and the flames spread to a height of 12 meters.” “The personnel attacked the igneous focus with two lines of 38 mm and one line of 63 mm, while the personnel rescued a man with severe burns,” an official report of those working in the area said in an interaction with this medium.
In addition to staff from the city’s civil defense department, there were also workers from Metrogas, who were carrying out construction work on the sidewalk to cut off the gas supply. “The height of the fire had already decreased by the time it reached the pipe. A man working on the opposite sidewalk suffered burns to his upper limbs and was transported by SAME to Durand Hospital,” City Fire Chief Diego Coria said.
“To everyone’s reassurance, it is now under control. Two cars are completely burnt out and another partially damaged. There is no danger of explosion and nine people were evacuated while adjoining buildings were evacuated. By working in four lines we were able to reduce the temperature and contain the flames,” he added.
Regarding the trigger, Collier explained: “They were doing some work on the sidewalk and the fire was caused by one of them. We will continue for several hours until we make a complete cut. At 20 meters from the zero point, several presses were placed, as there is no direct key to make the cut.”
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caballito gas leak
They were digging the sidewalk and broke the pipe. #metrogas.
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