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Metropolitan region
Thursday 14 January 2021 | 01:21
14 companies and 300 firefighters attended the house fire in La Dehesa
by Emilio Lara
With information from Mauricio Barrientos
Wednesday night, a fire was registered in a house in Lo Barnechea.
The affected address is located inside a condominium on Avenida Parque El Golf de The Dehesa.
Jorge Guevara, fourth commander of the Santiago Fire Department, stated in 14 companies and 300 volunteers who came to the emergency.
Asked about the large amount of resources that were available for this case, Guevara explained that “when a fire alarm occurs there is a minimum number of bombs arriving at the site “.
“In this case there were 14, precisely for prevent some spread, and we can have enough elements to put out the fire. Fortunately not all of them took care of it ”, he added.
The alarm was raised around 23:00 hours due to the flames that affected a housing between 400 to 500 square meters.
According to Guevara, the 80% of the structure was destroyed. In its interior there were no residents and no injuries were registered as a result of the flames.
Firefighters have already started the investigation of the fact to determine the origin and causes of the incident.
At 00:48 hours, the 4th Commander of the CBS, Jorge Guevara Ubilla, ends the Alarm of #Fire in the corners of Av. Parque El Golf with Golf Lomas de La Dehesa, in #LoBarnechea#Firefighters#ConstanceandDiscipline pic.twitter.com/0CR9y5PFXU
– Santiago Fire Department (@cbsantiago) January 14, 2021
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