A
major fire
broke out this Saturday in a
disused police cell warehouse
located in the Ensenada district, in the province of Buenos Aires.
The flames reached several vehicles, although fortunately no victims were reported.
The fire started around 5 p.m. and was warned by the local night watchman, who alerted the Ensenada Volunteer Firefighters.
Three crews traveled to the property
, located on Camino Vergara at 100 and after more than an hour of work they managed to control the flames.
The fire
destroyed several patrol cars, vans and other
disused vehicles from Buenos Aires Police stations in the La Plata, Berisso and Ensenada region that are taken to that parking lot to be compacted.
In addition, damage was recorded
in the
warehouse facilities, but no firefighters or police officers were affected, despite the dense columns of black smoke caused by the fire.
Several neighbors uploaded videos to social networks, reporting the incident.
At first, many attributed it to what had happened at the YPF distillery, until it was later clarified that it affected the warehouse of police vehicles destined to be compacted as scrap metal.
In one of them, a man who was recording, and who was apparently a member of a force, stated that “the discarded patrol cars, stragglers, thrown away and abandoned, somehow caught fire.”
“I don't know if there was any short circuit or explosion
,” he added.
In the case, labeled as "fire and other damage", the Functional Instruction Unit No. 9 of La Plata intervened, which ordered investigations to determine the origin of the fire.
With information from Télam.
IS