Fire in La Victoria: Firefighters control the incident at a chemical warehouse near ‘Matute’

a big blow alerted residents of block 8 of Jirón Abtao in the district of Victory, very close to the Alianza Lima club stadium. It was a large scale fire in a chemical warehouse.

They came to the place approximately 13 fire unitswhose members immediately launched the protocol to contain the fire that threatened a school and a warehouse of gas tanks that were a few meters from the incident. Members of the National Police and neighborhood night watchmen closed the streets to let the firefighters work and keep the neighbors safe.

The Head of Disaster Risk Management of the Municipality of Lima, mario casarettoconfirmed to América TV that part of the flames had died out and that the fire had left no injuries or casualties.

It was also reported that local residents were the most alarmed as the sound of the explosion caused panic among many and they ran out of their homes to safety.

The damaged warehouse has an operating license and a civil protection certificate.

Casaretto asked, on the other hand, to sepapal provide greater water pressure to completely control the fire in the La Victoria warehouse.

In images posted on social networks, we can see that a large cloud of smoke, sometimes black and sometimes white, rises towards the sky, which is why It is visible for several meters around.