00:03The incendio began at 11.40am when, according to the first versions,
00:08there was a short circuit in a machine of the plant of the use of the Sol
00:12and the explosion of a barzol cylinder.
00:15We are still doing our investigations, but apparently the report that we have is that it is a machine.
00:24In a moment, several armed employees of extintors tried to suffocate the fire,
00:28but in minutes, this was expanded by all the place and the 80 workers were evacuated.
00:33Minutes later, the police did the same with the inhabitants of the houses of several square feet.
00:38Apenas started the incendio, the bombers told us that there was a lot of chemicals
00:43and the risk was that there were four square feet and not to evacuate.
00:49Did you feel a lot of heat?
00:50Yes, the heat was insoportable.
00:52Even some patients from the hospital of Fontibán were transported.
00:55They evacuated some people, nine people, only for prevention,
01:01people of preeclampsia, embarazos.
01:05The bombers of Bogotá used 20 machines to control the llamas
01:08and received support from their colleagues at Funza and the airport El Dorado.
01:12We had approximately three hours and a half of operations for the control.
01:17Also, they had to control some explosions of small pieces with barsol.
01:22They presented several explosions, but that is a product, or even for the almacenamiento
01:26of the products in small pieces, which generate explosions.
01:30But their great job was to avoid the fire to these tanks, to prevent a tragedy,
01:35having in mind that the area is residential.
01:37Mercedes Ávila, the employee of the factory of products of aseo
01:41that was encended on the mediodía in Fontibón,
01:44was working when someone cried out that needed help and that everything was encended.
01:49There was a corte and a chispa, and they burned the empresa.
01:52They took off and there began a candle.
01:58What happened to you?
01:59What happened to you?
02:00It was a anger.
02:02The medical Oscar Murcia, from the hospital of Fontibón,
02:05the hospital of Fontibón,
02:06gave the part of the medical of the three patients that ingresed to urgencies.
02:09One, with a lot of important things,
02:12at the level of arms, at the level of muscles and legs,
02:15at the level of an area of surface of 27%.
02:18The other patient, well, no, no,
02:20no, no, no, lesiones tan severas,
02:22pero también tiene unas quemaduras en su antebrazo,
02:24más o menos un 4 o 5%,
02:26y otra paciente con efectos por inhalación de humo.
02:30Varias edificaciones vecinas fueron evacuadas
02:33ante el riesgo que representaba el incendio.
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