The devastating fire that shook the Ezeiza Industrial Park on the night of Friday, November 14 not only mobilized more than a dozen municipalities, but also reopened a wound that Argentina has not managed to close: one of the destroyed warehouses belongs to Iron Mountain, the same company involved in the Barracas fire in 2014, which left 10 firefighters and rescuers dead, with expert reports revealing intentional origin amid investigations into compromising financial documents.
The incident, visible from various points in the AMBA and even recorded from planes in flight, has not been fully extinguished for more than 15 hours. Authorities confirmed that, among the seven outbreaks that started within the Industrial Park, one reached an Iron Mountain warehouse, intensifying concerns about the safety of the facilities and the fate of the information stored there.
Iron Mountain is a U.S. company dedicated to information management, including physical storage of sensitive documents, archive custody, secure destruction, and digital safeguarding. In Argentina, it has operated for decades and provides services to companies and government agencies.
However, its name became etched in collective memory after the February 5, 2014 fire at its Barracas facility, where 10 public servants died while fighting a fire that, according to the courts, was intentional. That episode was surrounded by suspicion: investigations sought to determine whether the fire aimed to destroy key financial documentation linked to sensitive investigations. Company executives and former officials ended up involved in judicial proceedings and the event caused a major national controversy.
