Collapse of the Interior Roof and Entrance at Teatro Argentino in La Plata

As a consequence of the strong gusts of wind registered this Sunday, April 30, part of the interior roof and the entrance to the Teatro Argentino collapsed de La Plata, place where the vice president Cristina Kirchner gave a speech last Thursday.

The event occurred in the establishment located on Calle 51, between 9 and 10, around 8:00 p.m., when the material fell into the Alberto Ginastera Room. Also part of the canopy came off located at the entrance of the place. Fortunately no injuries were reported.

Beyond the fact that none of those present have been affected by what happened, a operational to avoid subsequent accidents and an ambulance approached the establishment SAMEpersonal of Civil defense of the Municipality of La Plata and Firefighters.

The collapse could have caused a greater tragedy given that at the time of the collapse the affected room was empty, but in the adjoining space the place was full, since a performance of a concert of the stable orchestra.

“The situation did not cause injuries or the interruption of the activities that were taking place inside. Immediately, firefighters began working at the site to secure the area and begin to review the structure,” the authorities of the Teatro Argentino Provincial Center for the Arts explained in a statement.

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In this sense, they specified that “There was a partial detachment of two signs on the eaves of the entrance” and that the firefighters “ended up removing all the signage on the left side (facing 10th Street) for safety and the access area to the dock and stairway was fenced off.”

“When the concert ended, the public left carefully, using a single door and therefore more slowly than usual,” they stated and clarified that “There was no evacuation of any kind” and that “the foreign ambulance belongs to the public emergency system and its presence is usual every time there are functions.”

The aforementioned landslide occurred during a storm that presented strong gusts of wind that reached speeds between 60 and 80 km/has indicated by the National Meteorological Service (SMN), being one of the main hypotheses that this caused the failure in the structure.

In this same place, last Thursday, April 27, Cristina Kirchner gave a speech within the framework of the Néstor Kirchner Justicialista School (EJNK). The event was attended by various figures from the ruling party, including the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillofand his lieutenant governor, Veronica Magario.

The Buenos Aires governor had also visited the place on April 20 to reopen the main hall of the establishment, Alberto Ginastera Roomin the company of the president of the Cultural Institute, Florencia Saintout.

At that time, Kicillof announced the end of the works carried out within the framework of a comprehensive recovery plan for the building, which required the outlay of more than $350 million. “We are valuing a fundamental space of Buenos Aires culture and identity that we received in a critical state,” she said during the reopening.

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