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"He left as he lived, thinking of others", the story of one of the firefighters who died from the Villa Crespo explosion

2020-06-04T09:46:29.657Z


Ariel Gastón Alvarez, 44, was noted for his spirit of solidarity. He had two children and followed his father's trade. The other victim, Maximiliano Firma Paz, was 43 years old and had also started in the Federal Police.


Javier Firpo

06/02/2020 - 22:40

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"They were two highly experienced firefighters, excellent professionals and we will take them to the heart," said the head of the operation on Ariel Gastón López (44) and Maximiliano Firma Paz (43) , the firefighters who died after the explosion in the Villa Crespo perfumery. "They are the risks we face to save the lives of citizens. God is always with us and this time he was not ."

Commanding Director of the City's Volunteer Firefighters Development and HR Planning Company, Ariel Gastón Vázquez was 44 years old, was from Hurlingham, studied Quality Management at the University of Morón and worked in Buenos Aires Hems, emergency medical air services, company where he was an operational technician.

"I can only tell you that he is one of the best firefighters I have ever met, very professional and a good person, always attentive to everyone, with an unseen human warmth, " says Alexis tearfully, a friend of Ariel Vázquez who is destroyed. "He was a great guy, father of two children , always thinking of others and how to help ... and a very fan of San Lorenzo."

Very dedicated to his work as a firefighter, Vázquez expressed it on his social networks. " Being a volunteer firefighter is the best there is. It changed my life and I don't change it for anything . It is a willingness to serve the public, to want to help people and solve their problems, if you don't understand that, which is the basics, you shouldn't get into this world

Ariel Gastón Vazquez, one of the firefighters who died from a fire and explosion in Villa Crespo.

From a young age Ariel knew he was going to be a firefighter. " Already at the age of ten he was ventilating on all four winds: 'Here I am going to be, know it ', pointing to the fire headquarters in Hurlingham," reveals María, a person who was closely linked to him in his youth. "A boy who gave himself up to serve others. And he died in his law, going to rescue those who had been trapped ."

Ariel, "very fond of her teenage children, who was always there for them", sucked the genes of her father Carlos Vázquez's "firefighter race" and always had the support of her mother, who "was cured of fright because all the life was with a firefighter. " His brother Sebastián is also a firefighter and practices in the Federal Police.

"And he was a great husband, a great companion ... Always affectionate and attentive to Selva, his wife, and the love of his life," says María, who highlights Ariel's "funny personality, who just as an example, a role model, he was also a barbaric freak, an enjoyer. "

Santa Claus dress. Ariel Vazquez, one of the firefighters who lived in the perfume shop that caught fire in Villa Crespo, was noted for his vocation for service and his spirit of solidarity.

On the other hand, Vázquez was very consubstantiated with the pandemic by Covid-19 and defended the quarantine, but with people in mind. "The end of the confinement does not mean that there is no longer a virus; it means that we already have a place for you in the hospital."

And he urged from his Facebook to take care of himself, sanitize himself, wear mask and gloves, and he folded himself to the phrase: "Don't forget that we are not coming out of the pandemic, we are going out with the pandemic." And he emphasized what the national authorities asked for, but putting himself in the first person: "Stay at your house; we cannot but you can."

He also thanked essential workers, who are exposed to the coronavirus every day , and listed health workers, firefighters, carriers, gendarmes, prefecture, veterinarians, pharmacists, businesses, collectors. He called all of them "new heroes",

And in passing he joined a popular request: "Gentlemen, the time has come to raise the salaries of health professionals and lower it to politicians."

Maximiliano Firma Paz, one of the firefighters who died from a fire and explosion in Villa Crespo.

With active participation also in issues of a sociopolitical nature, he stated that he did not agree with the release of the prisoners and shared with his followers the petition that gathered signatures to prevent the departure of the inmates. "I am not against the improvement of prisons, but not that they give prisoners freedom."

"An extraordinary person left, a prepared guy, who studied, trained, set goals, fulfilled his dreams, formed an incredible family and, suddenly, like a stab, left so young, this fate is very unfair for someone so generous ", Maria, a woman who knew him and loved him, breaks down. "An irony that he dies just on the day of the volunteer firefighter."

Along with Vázquez, Maximiliano Firma Paz , who had also passed through the Federal Police fire department, lost his life . He was 43 years old and was one of the first to arrive at the fire in the perfumery. Is that the detachment of Villa Crespo is about a hundred meters from the place of the tragedy. And according to witnesses, someone went to warn that there was a fire. Firma Paz had a long history as a firefighter as deputy commander.

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Source: clarin

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