Overview
- The city’s December 22 decree designates Buenos Aires a quiet zone free of audible pyrotechnics, with fines and narrow exceptions for distress signals or official use.
- Despite the prohibition, a loud fireworks display lit up Puerto Madero at midnight, documented in videos recorded by residents.
- Hospitals treated 22 people for fireworks-related injuries, with no critical cases and one more serious patient who did not require admission.
- Case details included 12 eye injuries at Santa Lucía (two under 15), two minor eye cases at Lagleyze, and eight burn patients aged 9–25 at the Hospital de Quemados, all discharged after ambulatory care.
- City transit agents conducted more than 5,000 sobriety checks overnight and found 38 drivers over the legal limit as part of New Year public-safety operations.