Overview
- Police say the blaze swept a two-story home in the De Vicenzo neighborhood of Del Viso, trapping three people on the upper floor.
- Firefighters later found the pregnant victim inside a closet as her partner had tried to pry off a window grille to escape.
- Judicial sources identified the dead as Milagros Maidana, 21; her brother Tomás, 19; and his partner, Milagros Arenales, 21, who was five months pregnant.
- Three others survived with injuries, including the father and homeowner, Maximiliano Maidana, who tried to cut through the roof with an axe and was burned.
- Early forensic work and witness accounts point to a stove flame that grew into an explosion, and prosecutor Andrés Quintana of Pilar’s UFI No. 2 has ordered autopsies as the cause is determined, while emergency crews secured the scene and cut the gas supply.