2024-10-07 22:02:55
Residents in the sector of Toesca Street and España Avenue stated that, shortly before the fire broke out in the warehouse, there were problems with electricity.
Volunteers from 16 fire companies worked hard to control the megafire that affected a warehouse near the Meiggs neighborhood this Wednesday morning, in a fact that according to residents of the sector would be related to the company Enelsince it originated after a sudden change in voltage.
The incident occurred in the warehouse located at the intersection of Toesca Street and Avenida España, in Santiago Centro, and forced the evacuation of the Darío Salas High School and the Higher Institute of Commerce (Insuco) 2both located nearby.
Once the firefighters managed to control the fire, the second commander of the Santiago Fire Department, Giorgio Tromben, stated that the flames affected “a large main warehouse and a building containing five floors“.
Why neighbors link Enel to the fire
While the press teams covered the emergency, residents of the sector gave their opinion on what would have been the origin of the flames and they pointed directly to Enel, which had announced a scheduled outage to carry out work.
“The problem is that it appeared suddenly. Trucks with material were arriving. It all started with a power outage“, a resident in the sector told T13.
In parallel, another person said in the morning program Contigo en la Mañana, on Chilevisión, that the neighbors had warned “that there was a change in the voltage“.
But without a doubt the maximum alert reached the neighbors through the Sofafe application, where at 8:03 a.m. a resident warned that “There was just a power outage in my house, my PC burned and a light bulb exploded.”
“Turn off the electricity in the houses, it is very dangerous, it can cause a fire“added the resident of that sector of the capital peremptorily.
On the other hand, a neighbor who identified himself as Alejandro spoke with the morning Hello, everyonefrom TVN, where he said that “when I turned on the television it started to turn on and off. Then I tried to turn on the lamp and it didn’t turn on, and In a WhatsApp group of neighbors I read that their light bulbs had burned out, so I unplugged everything as quickly as I could.“.
Now it will be up to the fire department and police experts to determine if it is actually The origin of this megafire in the Chinese product warehouse is or is not linked to Enelas the testimonies of the neighbors showed.