Overview
- Firefighters remain on scene at the Spegazzini Industrial Park and authorities are monitoring air quality after the overnight operations.
- Hospitals initially received 22 patients, including a heart-attack case and a pregnant woman with respiratory issues, and most have since been discharged.
- Five factories were reported affected, including a chemical facility and the Plásticos Lago plastics plant, with one building reduced to ashes.
- Roughly 15 fire crews responded as provincial civil defense labeled the incident a complex, prolonged fire.
- Airport operations at nearby Ministro Pistarini International Airport were delayed or diverted due to smoke, and the cause of the explosions remains under investigation with unconfirmed reports of an object falling from the sky.