Massive explosion hits industrial area in Ezeiza, Argentina; watch video

The explosions and fires that occur in various industries are enormous,’ said Ezeiza’s mayor Gastón Granados to the local channel C5N. Local television showed smoke billowing from the flames, as well as footage of the explosion in this municipality in the province of Buenos Aires. ‘The windows of my house and the neighborhood exploded,’ said Granados, who lives about 500 meters from this industrial sector known as Parque Industrial Spegazzini, to C5N. ‘We are evacuating families living nearby because the situation was terrible,’ reiterated the mayor. Carlos Santoro, director of the hospital where the injured are arriving, told the local channel La Nación + that ‘the number of patients’ they have received ‘so far is 22.’ Santoro explained to the local media outlet Infobae that they received a man with a heart attack and a pregnant woman with symptoms of poisoning, both residents of a neighborhood near the explosion site and currently in intensive care.