Overview
- Preliminary provincial peritajes detected phosphorus at the origin site, with a working hypothesis that a broken drum moved on Friday ignited and triggered the explosion.
- Specialist teams from the Policía Ecológica and the PFA’s fire investigators began examinations with limited access due to lingering hot spots, proceeding from the perimeter inward.
- Authorities report about 24 injured and no fatalities, with the initial fire and blast at the Logischem chemical storage site spreading to multiple neighboring facilities.
- Environmental checks found no toxic cloud in preliminary air readings, while investigators analyze where firefighting runoff flowed given the mix of hazardous materials.
- Municipal and provincial officials met affected firms to discuss relief, with Ezeiza pledging tax exemptions and Banco Provincia evaluating financing as insurers tally multimillion‑peso losses.