A
fierce fire hits a former bus terminal in Berazategui and has already affected the adjoining paper mill
.
More than ten fire crews are working on the site.
It is on the property where the bus line 129 terminal worked, located at the crossroads of Vergara and Touring Club avenues.
"The entire terminal is on fire. The magnitude of the fire is large and it reached the trash can,"
local sources told the
Télam news
agency .
Ten crews of firefighters were fighting.
"The fire is not controlled and more crews will arrive at the place," they said.
Large fire in what was the bus terminal for line 129 in Berazategui.
Photo: Capture
Although the first information indicated that it is the disused bus terminal of the Misión Buenos Aires company, formerly Río de La Plata, the company denied it and assured that it is the Plaza Group.
Plaza has bus routes that operate throughout Buenos Aires, including Quilmes, La Matanza, Avellaneda, Distrito Federal, Lomas De Zamora, Berazategui, Ensenada, Florencio Varela.
On social networks, several drivers traveling on the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway recorded the large column of black smoke coming from Berazategui.
The fire would have started after 2:00 p.m. and one of the first to arrive after the call from the neighbors were the firefighters from the Gutierrez barracks.
Crews from Florencio Varela, Hudson and El Pato also arrived immediately.
The fire affected part of the fleet of buses that were not used and the authorities announced that no people were injured.
A few minutes ago, the Misión Buenos Aires firm dissociated itself from the first information in a statement: "The fire at this property does not affect our company's services at all. What happened at the PLAZA facilities and the cars that are there They have no relationship with Misión Buenos Aires. The services work normally".
Grupo Plaza, a company of the Cirigliano brothers
The Cirigliano family used to be an emblem of public passenger transport through the Plaza group, thanks to holdings in bus and train companies.
However, since the
Once tragedy
, the brothers
Claudio and Mario Cirigliano
fell out of favor and began a process of scrapping their assets. In 2018, businessman Marcelo Zbikoski, who participates in the transportation business in Misiones, stayed with the group Square.
The Plaza group owns the "red" buses, such as lines 61 and 62, which have the particularity of passing through the three terminal train stations: Constitución, Retiro and Once.
Your journey starts and ends in the southern neighborhood of the city.
They also have bus 143, which goes from Retiro to Tapiales, with a stop in Constitución, like the others in the group.
Also the 129 that connects Buenos Aires with La Plata and the 114.
The Plaza group had the concession of the Sarmiento and Miter railways, but lost them with the nationalization of those lines.
The Ciriglianos were dotted by their closeness to Ricardo Jaime, the former Secretary of Transportation, and Juan Pablo Schiavi, who also carried out that task until the Once tragedy.
The brothers Claudio and Mario Cirigliano, former owners of the Trenes de Buenos Aires company and the Plaza Group.
Photo: EFE/Javier Gallardo
The court that handled the case understood that TBA (of the Plaza group) provided the Sarmiento service with rolling stock "in a deplorable state of maintenance" and that this allowed it to request to rebuild it with funds from the public treasury for the benefit of Cometrans, also of the cirigliano.
In early 2010, the Ciriglianos planned to expand into Qatar.
It was a time when they dominated the local market, with buses, trains, repair shops and other connected companies.
All of that began to unravel since 2012.
The buyer, Marcelo Zbikoski, has family ties to La Nueva Metropol (line 65), a company that has expanded in recent years.
However, he clarified that his signature is not linked to that of his relatives.
After the fire, the Misión Buenos Aires Group came out to clarify that the property belongs to the Plaza Group.
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