Overview
- A blaze on the third floor early Tuesday burned the Municipality of Guaymallén’s data center, prompting the suspension of activity at the building and leaving no injuries.
- City officials later declared an administrative, technological and operational emergency to restrict in-person attention, pause digital payments and filings, and shift to paper while basic services like trash pickup continue.
- Oficina Fiscal 9 opened an inquiry with fire experts, who are testing an electrical fault as the likely cause after a midnight power cut and the loss of the camera control system hampered the timeline.
- The destroyed hub was a recent $7 million upgrade, and the government is now checking what records were lost as some data sits in a contracted cloud and recent uploads may be at risk.
- Hours earlier on Monday, firefighters also contained a warehouse blaze at a bottle plant on Solari 9000 that destroyed several pallet rows and caused partial collapses without injuries.