At 5:10 Gustavo’s cell phone rang. He was in Montevideo, where he has lived for more than 40 years. A tenant of his cabin complex in Punta del Diablo called him, Cabañas Mandinga. It warned him that the complex had been set on fire and also that the flames had reached the complex next door, called Cuatro Mozas. They told them “Come easy, don’t run, this has already turned on everything.” When he arrived he saw a panorama and it was “total desolation”. “When I arrived the losses were already total“, he assured The Observer.
Gustavo, along with his wife, owned the complex eight years ago and the four cabins were their only real estate investment. He had never had a problem with fire until that event.. “Obviously there were external factors that caused the fire. The drought also helped and the fact that the Punta del Diablo Fire Department was out of town because it was undergoing renovations caused the arrival of the Fire Department to be delayed,” he said.
In turn, he said that the tenants of the complex were not harmed and that they were fine, something that worried him when he arrived, “We were with everyone, talking to everyone, I put myself in their place too and…” , he claimed. After arriving, he testified in the sectional, spoke with the Firefighters and continued waiting for them to allow him to enter the land.
Secondly, He said that the cabins were not insured, so he “lost everything.” “Things happen for a reason“, he pointed.
The fire broke out in the coastal area of the spa Devil’s Point this morning and left as balance eight cabins burned with total lossessources from the Rocha Police Headquarters confirmed to The Observer.
The flames started about 5 a.m. this Tuesdayin two complexes with several cabins located on Avenida Central and Calle 12, in the area of the rivero beach, east of Punta del Diablo. Each complex suffered the loss of four cabins.
In addition to the cabins, firefighters they had to control two starts of fires in two nearby houses to the cabins that “they came to take fire”, highlighted the Rochense Headquarters.
