Overview
- Fire broke out around 2 a.m. at Emerson and Gabriela Mistral in Villa Centenario, rapidly involving two adjacent plastics facilities.
- At least 16 firefighting units from Lomas de Zamora and neighboring districts contained the flames after evacuating the entire block.
- No injuries were reported, with both plants closed for the long weekend and access forced by responders.
- One factory was destroyed and the neighboring plastic-injection toy plant was roughly half burned, with nearby homes and a tennis club sustaining structural damage.
- Crews are using heavy machinery to knock down unstable walls and clear debris while the cause remains undetermined and forensic reviews of the site and security footage are pending.