Overview
- Lima authorities logged 77 fires in the early hours of January 1, with disaster-risk chief Mario Casaretto attributing most to pyrotechnics landing on precarious housing.
- The regional operations center said firefighters carried out 77 interventions, including a code-3 blaze in San Juan de Lurigancho and several code-2 incidents across the city.
- A clandestine pyrotechnics workshop fire in Santa Anita caused structural damage and left at least one person hospitalized, while a Miraflores Costa Verde blaze burned about 200 square meters of vegetation with fireworks suspected as the cause under investigation.
- In Buenos Aires, hospitals treated 22 patients for fireworks-related injuries—mostly ambulatory cases—despite a new decree designating the capital a pyrotechnics “calm zone,” as resident videos showed a noisy display in Puerto Madero.
- Prevention and enforcement efforts included seizures of more than 600 kilograms of unauthorized fireworks in Peru’s Junín region, and separate reports from Mexico’s Veracruz detailed multiple fires tied to pyrotechnics that destroyed homes and damaged a restaurant.