Several complaints arrived this morning on WhatsApp from EL DIA (+5492214779896) assuring that they woke up with a “smell of smoke” and reporting the fall of “ashes”. At least in San Carlos, Gonnet and Gorina wondered where they came from when faced with the surprise of these two phenomena. Later, other areas near the center of La Plata were added, such as La Loma, Ringuelet, Plaza Italia and Parque San Martín.
“There is a smell of smoke and it looks like a mist. And ash also falls,” said a neighbor from the area of 42 and 141 this morning. From the same neighborhood they described that “we woke up with strong gusts of smoke and ashes in the pools The smell causes physical discomfort and breakdowns. You can’t breathe.”
These sayings were added to those of a frontist from Gonnet, who assured that “ashes do not stop falling and there is a lot of smoke.” In this case, he sent a photo of how he found the car when he was leaving for work: covered with some kind of burned grass. “There is a strong smell of smoke and ashes on the ground in the area of 19 and 34,” another reader of the newspaper complained. In addition, in the sector of 6 and 510 they maintain that “the air is unbreathable due to the smell”.
The truth is that yesterday afternoon a large fire started in part of the Punta Lara Nature Reserve, which has not yet been put out and this morning they were still fighting. That is why the wind would have dragged the remains of the igneous focus in that green space in Ensenada to those areas in the north of La Plata.
Official sources assured today that “since Wednesday afternoon there has been a large-scale fire, exceeding 1,500 linear meters and reaching the Villa Elisa canal.” They specified that the Municipality of Ensenada and Volunteer Firefighters of that town work in the place together with Park Rangers and Firefighters from Magdalena, Berazategui, El Pato and Berisso.
It was reported that at the moment there were no homes affected or people injured, and that the fire would have started in a sector of a particular bordering the reserve. In addition, it was indicated that helicopters from the Province will join this Thursday and will seek to make a land firewall to prevent the advance of the fire.
