Overview
- A blaze started in the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería’s Foundry Laboratory and was reported to emergency services at about 10:44 a.m. on Friday, October 23, and five units of the Cuerpo General de Bomberos Voluntarios del Perú helped control it.
- The university and faculty said the fire was quickly extinguished by campus technical staff with firefighter support and that no students or staff were injured.
- The Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica suspended all classes for the day by issuing Communiqué N.° 012-2026 and asked course delegates to coordinate recovery of lost hours with instructors.
- The faculty warned that Laboratory No. 5 is in 'imminent risk' and said repeated requests for refacción to UNI’s central administration had not been addressed, raising questions about deferred maintenance of a facility reported to be about 50 years old.
- Officials have not confirmed a cause or released a damage assessment and have said resumption of activities will depend on formal safety inspections and technical reports expected in the coming days.