One person died and two others were referred to a hospital affected by smoke inhalation when an apartment in a building in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires caught fire on Monday night, police and health sources reported.
The fire it broke out around 11:40 p.m. in the living room of a department of 22nd floor of a building located at 2300 Aguilar Street for reasons that were being investigated.
When entering the place where the flames were generated, the firefighters They found a man dead, while two other young people were transferred to the Pirovano hospital affected by carbon monoxide inhalation, as specified by the head of SAME, Alberto Crescenti.
One of the internees was Felipe Pettinato, son of musician and conductor Roberto Pettinato, who is out of dangeraccording to police sources.
Crescenti indicated that the fatal victim was a young man, although his identity has not yet been released or whether he lived in the burned apartment or was visiting.
While, the residents of the building were evacuated and a woman unable to move was assisted by firefighters in her apartment on the second floor of the building, which they accessed by means of a ladder through the balcony.
“A very large operation was deployed because there was a lot of fire and smoke, but luckily the evacuation was in order and people were able to get off,” said the head of SAME in statements to the TN channel.
Firefighters they worked almost two hours to put out the fire and the operation, in which personnel from the 14th police station of the City Police also participated, ended around 1:30 today.
