Overview
- Fire broke out just after 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 10 in office 614 on the fourth floor of the Senate annex on Hipólito Yrigoyen.
- Security protocols prompted a full evacuation and rapid responses by City and Federal firefighters and SAME, containing the incident within the building.
- Reports differ on the toll, with three to six maintenance workers treated for smoke or carbon monoxide exposure and two taken to Hospital Ramos Mejía as a precaution.
- The senator’s office, assigned to Andrea Marcela Cristina (PRO, Chubut), was found heavily burned and remains closed for cleaning and remediation.
- Peritajes and technical inspections are underway to confirm the cause, and authorities conducted ventilation, safety checks, and traffic controls around Plaza del Congreso.