Firefighters from the City of Buenos Aires continue working to extinguish the fire in the Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve that broke out on Saturday afternoon and that is the second in four daysreported official sources.
Through a helicopter with bucket of the City Police, the brigadistas attacked around 8 a.m. a front of approximately 700 meters x 2.50 meters in height that appeared irregularly and in an area of bushes.
Once these works were completed, the brigade members resumed their tasks to extinguish the small spotlights inside the property with a line and also using sapping material to extinguish the incident.
This Sunday at dawn, the firefighters with several water lines and infantry personnel with zapa material had already worked to put out small sources that remained, after on Saturday night they had managed to control the spread of the fire.
Two volunteer firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation and a City firefighter because an incandescent particle affected his eyeas indicated in a police part.
Two volunteer firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation and a City firefighter because an incandescent particle affected his eye
And this Sunday morning, in addition, the firefighting tasks began with a PFA H-14 helicopter with a helibalde.
The fire affected the Camino de los Plumerillos, 100 meters from the Laguna Seca, the same site of the fire that originated on Wednesday past.
Volunteer firefighters from San Telmo, Puerto Madero, Barracas, Pompeya, La Boca, the City of Buenos Aires and personnel from the Special Federal Rescue Brigade (Befer) worked to combat the flames.