The federal judge of Campana, Adrián González Charvay, who is investigating the fires that on Wednesday caused the blackout of electricity that affected millions of homes in a large part of the countryordered to search for images from public and private security cameras from nearby areas and the collection of testimonies from neighbors, knowing that technical expertise may take a few days.
The magistrate has been investigating since Wednesday night how, when and where the sources of fire that affected the high-voltage pylons originated and that led to the massive power outage.
In this regard, the Secretary of Legal and Administrative of the Ministry of Economy, Ricardo Casal, indicated that satellite application technology will be used to try to find those responsible for the fire source.
Casal specified that the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, instructed that the images of the geographic information system used in the rural sector be provided to the Campana Federal Court to verify if the area located below the lines were a source of fire.
In this sense, the Undersecretary of Electric Power, Santiago Yanotti, assured that “it is confirmed” that the inconvenience on the Campana-General Rodríguez line originated in a fire and that “today technology allows us to know very precisely where the failure”.
Sources of the investigation specified to Télam that, As it is a rural area, justice does not expect access to cameras with direct images of the scene (beyond those that the court already has) but yes of the access roads to the land where the fire broke out to see who or who circulated there.
According to Casal, “What caused a bit of concern is that the sources of fire that we saw in the video are very specific, below the power line.”
Likewise, he stressed that, by submitting the complaint, Massa “built a work team between Atucha, Cammesa and the Federal Police to carry out the expertise and determine the causes as quickly as possible.”
The judge was on Wednesday night in the area of the fires, where he learned about the characteristics of the event and, once the igneous sources were controlled, and with daylight, experts from the fire department began to work. the Argentine Federal Police in search of any evidence that could determine whether the fire was intentional.
For these hours, andhe court does not rule out any hypothesis: it is investigating whether the fires were the product of human action, whether malicious or reckless, or whether it was an event produced by nature on a day when the conditions for such an episode were given characteristics (temperature of more than 30 degrees, humidity less than 30% and more than 30 kilometers per hour of wind).
Within the hypotheses in which human action is included, in the Executive Power they suspect that there could have been sabotage, while the other possibility is that reckless human action could have facilitated the fire with the accumulation, for example, of leaves and dry branches and even pieces of glass.
“This accumulation can also be intentional; a fuel drum does not always appear when there is a malicious fire,” explained a source from the investigation who clarified, in any case, that dogs trained to detect the presence of accelerators are working in the area. of fire.
For these hours, The court is also receiving geolocation images of the fire at a general level to then move forward with the cadastral identification that allows determining the ownership of the land where the fires occurred.
In parallel, justice awaits the advancement of the expertise of specialized technicians in the matter to determine where the greatest heating of the high voltage line occurred: specialists from the Energy Secretariat work on this report with the collaboration of Atucha, reported the sources consulted.
