A neighbor of the house that exploded this Saturday in Villa Devoto showed
the damage left by the accident
at the corner of Pedro Morán and Quevedo, where an operator from the Metrogas company was working due to a gas leak.
The man, from his balcony, in front of the place of the explosion, recorded a video of one minute and fifteen seconds and realized that
the area had become "a war zone"
.
A war zone from which he "escaped", according to his own account, because with his family, at that moment, they were buying pasta.
A neighbor said that he was saved because, with his family, they went to buy pasta at the time of the explosion -photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
"In front of the house... three duplexes exploded, I don't know for what reason", begins the story of the audiovisual testimony, in which firefighters are observed working in the place.
“The corner looks like a war.
In my house,
the shock wave broke absolutely everything
”, she adds at the moment when she turns her camera and focuses on a young man and a woman cleaning and tidying up the interior of the apartment.
"The windows, the rooms, everything exploded
," says the neighbor.
The woman sweeps expanded glass all over the living room floor and the noise from it sets to music a scene that could have had an even worse ending.
"The shock wave broke absolutely everything," he insists, as he continues to show the apartment and seems to realize what would have happened if they hadn't all gone out to look for food.
“Minutes before the explosion occurred, we went in the car to buy pasta and,
if we were there, the shock wave would kill us
.
Under no point of view do I think we got away ”.
The tour ends where it started.
On the balcony, with the firefighters still working and the destruction of the house across the street imposing itself as the new view that the family home now has.
A neighbor defined the place after the explosion as a "war zone" - photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
"Terrible.
People lived there, I don't know if there were people at that time, but there are literally three duplexes and all three exploded.
There you see the tickets, all three exploded.
Something never seen, at least on my part.
Unbelievable,” she concludes.
The explosion in Devoto that left one dead and one seriously injured
One person died and a Metrogas operator was injured with serious burns this Saturday noon after the explosion and the collapse of a house in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Devoto.
The event occurred around 12:30 p.m. this Saturday in a two-story duplex complex located on Pedro Morán and Quevedo streets, where an operator from the Metrogas company was working due to a gas leak.
Quevedo and Pedro Moran, the place where the tragedy occurred - photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
The deceased neighbor was identified as Roberto Daniel Fratini, 76, whose body was found lifeless with burns, in the back of one of the collapsed houses, located at Moran 4903, according to police sources.
Metrogas clarified that "the causes are still unknown" that caused this strong explosion and the subsequent collapse of the property and the fire of two vehicles that were parked in the area, one of them the Metrogas operator's truck and the other a Volkswagen Goal.
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Explosion and fire in Villa Devoto due to a gas leak: a 76-year-old neighbor died and an operator was seriously injured
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