Panic in a holiday colony in La Plata: they had to evacuate due to a forest fire

Panic in a holiday colony in La Plata: they had to evacuate due to a forest fire

The images of the tense moment show how the teachers and children had to run out of the local pool.

Students and teachers of a holiday camp in The Silver They experienced a real scare this Thursday, after a forest fire in a nearby field. Those present had to evacuate the place and recorded the desperate moment, due to the advance of the smoke.

In the midst of the heat wave that is hitting the region, the authorities of the children’s holiday colony of Pharmacists Club They had to request the immediate evacuation of children and adults due to a fire that had broken out.

Under this framework, they indicated that the fire took place in a vacant field adjacent to the activity site, but As the area was filled with white smoke, they decided to evacuate to avoid inconvenience. In this way, parents were notified, who minutes later removed the students without problems.

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The smoke advanced towards the colony.

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The images of the forest fire that broke out in La Plata.

The fire was controlled

In addition, The Arturo Seguí Firefighters and residents of the area helped control the fireaccording to the newspaper El Día. They are seeking to clarify the causes of the fire, which generated panic and tension in the holiday camp, full of children, where fortunately there were no injuries.

This fact adds to what happened in the Tolosa district of La Plata, where the intense heat caused a fire in a sector of the freight train tracks.

“High temperatures, added to the dry vegetation, facilitate the spread of fire and can trigger uncontrolled fires that put the environment, nearby properties and essential resources of emergency teams at risk,” explained director Roberto Scafatti.

In this sense, the importance of avoid burning garbage or grasslands in the face of high temperaturesand they also requested do not throw cigarette butts in grasslands or dry land; as well as the immediate communication with the firefighters or Civil Defense in the case of being present at a fire source.

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