City fire brigade they evacuated this Monday afternoon Ministry of Economy of the Nation due to a fire.
the flames they would start on the eighth floor of the building located in 100 Balcarce Street, even if the first versions mention it the seventh could also be affected.
After 19:00 a group of firefighters arrived in the area alerted by the presence of flames in the unit in charge of Sergio Massa, from where they evacuated the staff who were inside the room in a few minutes.
According to Clarin witnessed, two fire engines quickly arrived in the vicinity of the building to try to start the fire. At 19:30 they were already five fire trucks in place.
There are rumors that there has been a short circuit in the cables of the personnel offices. It has not yet been established whether it occurred in the human resources, archival or documentary sectors.
Smoke is known in the area where it continues to rise from the roofs of the business headquarters.
On the sidewalks there are about 200 people who took to the streets after the alarms started to sound inside the Ministry.
Another version indicates that it is the input of Balcarce 186 where the fire occurred, which is a building annexed to the Economywhere there are also public bodies such as the Department of Administrative Document Management of the Ministry.
In this building, lateral to the main one, there is also a dependency of the Ministry of Women and IT areas.
Police say the buildings have already been evacuated. The headquarters of the Ministry in charge of Massa has a ground floor and 13 floors.
The firefighters are carrying out an inspection inside the room. They were divided into two groups. The first collaborates in the extinction works and the second carries out the inspection of all the building plans.
News in development.
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Source: Clarin
