Tragic Fire in Córdoba: 18-Year-Old Dies After Jumping from 12th Floor

2024-03-28 22:28:58
An 18-year-old boy died after jumping from the 12th floor of a building that was on fire in Córdoba

It was 4:30 in the morning this Thursday when a strong explosion broke the silence of the Nueva Córdoba neighborhood. The schedule was marked in the police reports and in the official information later provided by the firefighters of the capital of Córdoba. But also in the memory of the residents of the Aguaribay Building Consortium, located on Calle Yrigoyen, who woke up due to the shocking noise and urgently evacuated their homes when they saw that a apartment in the complex caught fire.

It was the 12th floor home that Tiziano Tejerina, 18, rented along with his roommates Sebastián Diquin and Pablo Acasa, both 19, who were trapped in the flames unleashed by a gas leak. Before the incident, the teenagers and university students tried to escape through the windows. However, when doing so, the youngest fell into the void and died instantly.

In the tragic event, which took place in a few seconds, his friend Diquin also suffered a fall that left him hospitalized in serious condition. The only one who managed to enter a neighboring home and be assisted in time was Acasa, whose escape maneuver was recorded by a resident of another home who recorded the shocking sequence with his cell phone.

“I woke up to a loud sound, it sounded like a gunshot or an explosion. “Then I heard people screaming, so I looked outside to see and I realized there was a fire and a man climbing down the wall,” influencer Curtis Leo Bolduc, who witnessed and captured one of the most dramatic images, told Infobae. of the night.

Fire and death in Nueva Córdoba

It was a “terrifying” scene, as he himself described. In the video, you can see how the young man holds on to the construction while his neighbors, desperately, try to guide him to the window of an apartment located one floor below. “Look at me, hold your breath,” is one of the instructions that a neighbor gave to the victim. Towards the last seconds of the recording, another woman is heard screaming. “She’s inside,” she said, warning that the student had finally been able to enter the building through another balcony.

“It was terrifying, I had no idea what was happening, but the fire grew very quickly. All the burning debris was falling on him, it seemed like he was in trouble,” the author of the film told this medium.

Black smoke from the fire

The deployment of both police, medical personnel and firefighters in the area lasted for at least two hours after the incident. In the surroundings of the affected home, more than twenty people were evacuated waiting to return to their homes while the brigade members put out the fire.

One of them was Sofía, a neighbor who lives on the eighth floor of the tower next door, who fled her house to take care of the intense column of black smoke that had embraced the area and the glass and other materials that fell as a result. of calcination.

In dialogue with this medium, the young woman also recounted what the tragic night of Thursday was like: “I woke up to the screams and the explosion. Then I went out to the balcony and felt very hot. When I looked up, I saw the fire, I grabbed my things and left the building,” she said. And she added: “We returned around 6:30 in the morning. Until that moment, the area was fenced off with danger tape and they kept us away.”

The videos of the incident that occurred this morning

The incident began in unit A on the 12th floor and alerted the three students from the National University of Córdoba who lived there. Desperate, they tried to escape through a window, but two of them fell into the void.

According to information provided by the Córdoba Fire Chief, Sergio Cravero, the flames blocked the entrance to the apartment, forcing the young people to look for an exit through a window.

As the flames and smoke advanced, the three teenagers were cornered and decided to escape out of the apartment. In that attempt, a 19-year-old young man managed to go down the ledge to the 11th floor, where he was rescued.

Upon arriving at the scene, fire personnel managed to enter through the María Reina II Complex, from where the flames could be put out. Previously, about 35 people self-evacuated from the complex, alerted by the smoke in the place.

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