Overview
- An underground garage fire erupted around 3:24 a.m. at a residential building on Calle 61 No. 522, sending dense smoke into upper floors.
- Police special-risk units and La Plata firefighters executed ladder and vertical rescues, opened apartments floor by floor, and ventilated the towers.
- Several residents were treated for smoke or possible carbon‑monoxide inhalation, including a woman about 59 taken to Hospital San Martín and a 16‑year‑old assisted on the terrace.
- Ambulances from SAME and SIES and Red Cross teams provided on‑site care as the Superintendencia de Seguridad Siniestral coordinated operations and police secured the perimeter.
- Responders contained the source and prevented vertical fire spread, and officials report the origin of the blaze remains under investigation, with some evacuees leaving without giving details.