Overview
- Flames erupted in the Cosquín–La Calera service near La Calera station around 8 p.m. Monday, triggering an emergency evacuation.
- Authorities reported about 120 people evacuated, while firefighters counted 130 on board, with four taken to a hospital including a child and no critical injuries.
- Firefighters, Civil Defense, and provincial and federal police contained the blaze after roughly two to three hours, and the affected unit sustained total damage.
- The incident came within 24 hours of two collisions at unprotected level crossings in Villa Giardino and Huerta Grande, the latter injuring an 18-year-old.
- Rail service was halted temporarily for emergency operations and forensic work, and the cause of the fire remains undetermined under a fiscalía investigation.