The danger of collapse persists on the Villa Devoto property where the explosion occurred

More than 48 hours after the explosion of a house located in Pedro Morán at 4,900where a 76-year-old man died and a Metrogas operator was injured, the risk of property collapse of the Villa Devoto neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is still latent.

Police sources confirmed GlobeLiveMedia that after the preliminary inspection of the City Assistance Guard, it appeared that the building, consisting of a ground floor and a first floor, had undergone a collapse and one collapse structure of almost the entire first level.

To this, explain the same sources, we must add the state of the entire structural system of the ground floor, which jeopardize the stability of the House. In summary: all the construction that remains standing is maintained in a “unstable” balance.

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As a preventive measure, the demolition of the lintel located above the garage and the tiled eaves which were in danger of falling was requested. All this was done on Saturday, said the sources consulted by this media.

This Monday evening, the San Marco prosecutor, in charge of the PCyF 19 prosecution, was waiting for the Metrogas company to finish working on the site in order to ensure that the conditions of restore power in the area, the case sources said.

While awaiting the results of the expertise on the house to determine how the explosion occurred, on Monday the justice of Buenos Aires decided that the case would be the subject of an investigation for crime of guilty damage. For now, there are five defendants.

They are the injured operator of Metrogas, who has multiple injuries and was transferred by his social work to the Agote sanatorium, and four employees of the Cobra company, which performs tasks for Edesur. From the gas supplier, they pointed out that at least until this afternoon they “did not know there had been any charges” against their worker.

Meanwhile, the assistant prosecutor Alexander Fosterof the West Flagrance Unit of the City, ordered the first measures in coordination with the prosecutor Saint Markwhere it will continue to treat the matter under investigation as guilty damageimplying that the fire was caused by negligence, recklessness or recklessness.

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This Monday, while the personnel of the Accidents division of the Municipal Police carried out the removal and removal a piece of gas pipe; The San Marco prosecutor collected evidence and spoke with the Buenos Aires fire department They continue to work in the area to establish the causes of the explosion.. “The Criminalistics area has also been added to obtain traces,” forensic sources told the outlet.

The judicial official of Buenos Aires also asked “Metrogas and Edesur all reports of complaints received for gas leaks, power outages and other contingenciesand the protocol of action for this type of case”, detailed the sources consulted by this means.

In addition, he ordered the removal of the truck of one of the companies involved and the four cars affected by the explosion and the fire, to carry out tests. On the other hand, he asked that the security cameras in the area and the removal of the injured Metrogas operator’s clothes be monitored.

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Another of the orders issued by the court was that SAME be ordered to provide them psychological confinement to neighbors during the reception of testimonies. In this context, it was learned that the family living in the house next to the victim I was on holiday.

The explosion occurred on Saturday, February 11, after the 12, in a house on Pedro Morán Street, a few meters from its intersection with Quevedo Street, in the Villa Devoto neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where a Metrogas operator I was working for a leak.

As the company reported, after phone calls from locals warning of a strong smell of gas in the area; one of the workers arrived, opened the meter cover and the explosion which started a fire occurred.

After the explosion, city police and firefighters responding to the incident found a 76-year-old man dead in the rubble.

In turn, the SAME holder, Alberto Crescentiinformed the news agency telam that the 34-year-old Metrogas operator had been transferred to the Zubizarreta hospital with injuries and burns, lucid, out of danger and without risk of death.

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