Una devastadora inundación en General Cerri, cerca de Bahía Blanca, ha dejado un saldo trágico con al menos cinco fallecidos y la desaparición de dos niñas, Delfina y Pilar Hecker. La familia Hecker intentaba escapar del temporal cuando su vehículo fue atrapado por la creciente. Las autoridades continúan la búsqueda desesperada de las menores mientras los residentes enfrentan la destrucción total de sus hogares. La fuerza del agua ha transformado calles en arroyos y arrasado barrios enteros, dejando a muchas familias sin nada. Este desastre natural resalta la vulnerabilidad ante fenómenos climáticos extremos.
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00:00...confirmed lives that were lost now, and the disappearance of two girls, Delfina and Pilar Hecker,
00:07five and a year old, of that story, and in the place of the facts is now Alejandro Pueblas.
00:13How are you Ale, good afternoon.
00:16Very good afternoon, the situation is otherwise critical, where we are now with Ernesto Tallareta.
00:21We are trying to get to Cerri, it is one of the most affected towns.
00:24Look, for that side, now entering a machine to try to uncover part of the water circulation,
00:30a lady with her puppy that she had to save.
00:33We see people here, but we are not going to approach, let's see, come here, come here, keep it, huh.
00:36Look, this is the street Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and I'm going to tell you the reality.
00:40We came with the car on the route, trying to turn, the GPS marked us to turn right here, look.
00:45There is nothing.
00:45This is the street that enters Cerri, at this moment it is a stream that goes directly,
00:52the water running to Cerri, to the side where these girls were on top of the truck.
00:57What you see there is a house, at this time it is a pile of rubble.
01:01The water here reached more than two meters.
01:03For you to have a notion of the force of the water, the Guaray started.
01:07Look how they have been torn and thrown some on the asphalt, Lu.
01:13We are observing the images on the right of a Gol brand car.
01:18Gol.
01:20Could this be the car of the family?
01:25Do you know?
01:27We are going to try to get to that vehicle.
01:30It is, Lu, it is about a kilometer to the street that I just showed you.
01:37A situation where there were two meters of water.
01:39But there is no way ...
01:40Wait, I'm going to get closer.
01:42Come on, come on, we follow you, Ale.
01:44Ale is in Cerri, which is the place where the sisters disappeared.
01:48Where there were at least five deceased.
01:50How are you?
01:52How are you?
01:54Did you come to help? What happened?
01:56Yes, I came here.
01:58My husband is in the field, making the house, because everything was flooded.
02:04The field, the water, everything.
02:06Instead of being at home, you are standing here.
02:08I've been waiting for him since this morning, because he's with my daughter.
02:11We can't walk so much.
02:14How far did the water get there?
02:16I have no idea, because they haven't arrived yet.
02:18They haven't arrived, where is your house?
02:20I don't know, at least a little, yes.
02:22And the water here was very strong, right?
02:25I have no idea, because over there is the stream that goes to the school.
02:29Did they run away from the water?
02:32No, we are not from here, we are from Punta Alta.
02:35And they came from Punta Alta now to see how their house is?
02:37Yes, from there.
02:38Do you have relatives there in the Amazon?
02:41In the field, no, my husband is the one who goes and comes.
02:43The one who is now going and coming.
02:46Since this morning, he hasn't come back with my daughter.
02:49They found everything flooded.
02:51Are you in touch with them?
02:53Yes, by phone.
02:55Thank you very much.
02:57Come, I'm going to show you.
02:59You just saw the image of the little girl with the dog,
03:02who has also been left on the side of the road,
03:04who is the granddaughter of the lady.
03:06Here is a boy, let's see if we are going to bother him with the canoe.
03:10Master, does it bother you a little?
03:12We are live for A24.
03:15I see you are all wet, they are sleeping,
03:17they were taking people out, what was the situation?
03:19We came to see my mom because as this overflowed,
03:23we had to go to see how she was, we had no way.
03:27You couldn't find your mom?
03:29No.
03:30And now you were able to find her?
03:31Yes, we could see her,
03:33because we just came to see my dad and my brother,
03:36and yes, we could see that everything was fine.
03:39I notice you are very sad, the situation is critical
03:41to the place where we can't get to, right?
03:43Yes.
03:45Did you arrive only with the canoe?
03:47Yes, it was difficult to get there, but we were able to get there.
03:50What did you find when you arrived?
03:52No, a disaster,
03:54you can't ...
03:56there are no words to explain what is going on back there.
03:59It's horrible how it is.
04:02Thank you, Master.
04:04Well, the emotion of the young man who explains,
04:07they were working, there is another young man sleeping,
04:09they are asking for help.
04:11He is crying, we are not going to interrupt him.
04:14We are going to leave him.
04:15Well, these are situations that we have gone through.
04:17There are people who have lost everything,
04:19who are no longer in the place,
04:20look at the houses made of rubble.
04:22Of course, where you look, there is destruction.
04:24Where you look.
04:26Yes, this young man, broken into tears,
04:28what he tells is that he went to look for his desperate mother,
04:32because, well, the same thing, he couldn't contact her.
04:35But I'm going to show you,
04:36just when the machine entered, behind that tree,
04:39there is a neighborhood.
04:40Well, the neighborhood was swept away by the water.
04:43It practically does not exist.
04:45Where there were houses.
04:46Look at this, look at this image.
04:48Look at that house that is there.
04:50I'm going to show you Ernesto.
04:52It does not have a roof.
04:53That is, here the water exceeded the height of that house.
04:56That is, the water here was sweeping.
04:59This that was formed, this gradient between the asphalt
05:02and the floor is because of the current of the water.
05:05Here was made a street of rubble.
05:08Look, we're going to get closer here, look.
05:12Ernesto, what I'm going to show you is the sign.
05:14Keep that there is still a lot of mud.
05:16It is the sign on the side of the route.
05:19Look how he twisted it.
05:21He crushed it.
05:23He turned it into a sheet.
05:24The water.
05:25And they are hard, huh?
05:26And it is walled up.
05:27And it is very hard.
05:31Look at this.
05:32This image is one of the most graphic of this place.
05:37Rubble.
05:39The water exceeded the two meters approximately,
05:43where everything that was in its way was taken away.
05:46Because here is a flood of water,
05:48which we are going to get closer to,
05:50which is what was trying to exhaust,
05:54is what was trying to bring the water of this neighborhood young.
05:59But what happens?
06:00The mud, the mud and the dirt that came from the bottom,
06:07managed to cover the drain.
06:10And here the height of the water began to grow,
06:16which is what generated that it is blocked.
06:19And that's why it ended up above Route 3.
06:22We, I don't want to lie to you,
06:24but to get to this place we have seen very sad images,
06:29where practically the water has taken everything,
06:33of people.
06:34It has left nothing standing.
06:36And I'm going to stop on the route.
06:38Come here, Chazan.
06:39We are going to stop on the route,
06:41because I want to show you.
06:43Over there, right,
06:46this is the street Domingo Faustino Sarmiento.
06:48It is where the goal came from.
06:51Where we are going to try to get now,
06:53by a nearby road,
06:54of these two little girls,
06:56who do not appear.
06:58They are starting to find out and try to contact
07:01all the places where there are refugees.
07:04But there were times when people were in their homes
07:07and had to leave.
07:09The water collapsed houses.
07:11The water took everything.
07:13The force of the water was very strong.
07:16Look, the family that we were just,
07:18some friends came to contain them.
07:20We gave them this space,
07:22because the truth is that they were not well.
07:24And look at this image.
07:26The little girl who is there with the puppy,
07:28that now Chazareta is going to show you.
07:31Under the water, he saved his dog.
07:34He has stayed on this side,
07:36waiting for his mother to return,
07:39from what is the catastrophe.
07:41Let's tell people that he is in General Serri now.
07:45That on Route 13, in General Serri,
07:48where Alejandro is now,
07:50is where the sisters were lost.
07:52Where this search began,
07:55at the same time as the tragedy.
07:59The parents were traveling on a Gol Trend,
08:02on Route 3,
08:04when the water began to rise.
08:06It began to rise so immeasurably
08:08that they decided to get out of the car.
08:10Because the car was starting to cover up
08:12and they go down with the girls of 5 and 1 years.
08:15Then they look for a higher place.
08:18Imagine, in the middle of a current,
08:20of a wind of 80 km per hour,
08:22of water rising at an unusual speed.
08:25With images like the one we are seeing now,
08:27that dragged what was on the way,
08:29trucks, cars, road signs,
08:31the route itself, houses.
08:33They took everything and look for a place,
08:35a refuge for their daughters.
08:37What they found at that moment
08:39was a taller truck,
08:41which was what was nearby.
08:43That truck is from a postal service company,
08:45the government minister of the province of Buenos Aires,
08:48Carlos Bianco, confirmed it a while ago.
08:50There they deposited Pilar Hecker,
08:525 years old, and Delfina Hecker.
08:54And from there they did not see them anymore.
08:57There the stories are confused.
08:59For some, they were both on the roof.
09:01The father himself installs a version
09:03that could have been dragged
09:05by the current.
09:07But the truth is that they do not find
09:09the person who drove that truck
09:11and where they had taken refuge at that time,
09:13the two girls, we insist,
09:15Pilar and Delfina,
09:175 years old
09:19and 1 year old,
09:21who are still being searched.
09:23To try to locate where this tragedy happened,
09:26notice that this family,
09:28the Hecker family,
09:30was going from Bahia Blanca
09:32to the house of some relatives
09:34in Mayor Buratovich
09:36to escape from the storm.
09:38Bahia Blanca, yes?
09:40Throughout this bay
09:42they were going to do this tour
09:44of a little less than an hour and a half
09:46to go to Buratovich
09:48and how are things, right?
09:50To escape from the storm
09:52that was raging in Bahia Blanca.
09:55But what happened?
09:57They could hardly leave the town.
09:59Buratovich is from Villarino, yes?
10:01Okay.
10:03But look at Bahia Blanca.
10:05I ask Karina, our producer,
10:07now let's go to the other map.
10:09Bahia Blanca up there,
10:11as we are seeing it,
10:13look where Serri is.
10:15Bahia Blanca we just saw
10:17on the big map, yes?
10:19They were going to do all that tour
10:21that I just showed you,
10:24what they think is that
10:26instead of following Route 40
10:28because it had a lot of water,
10:30they took internal roads.
10:32Now Google Maps
10:34shows you that traffic is cut off here,
10:36that you can't go through here,
10:38that this street can't be taken, yes?
10:40This is clear, eh?
10:42Traffic, this is from now on.
10:44We did this capture,
10:46our production did it a few minutes ago.
10:48This is what is happening now,
10:50now you can't circulate.
10:52Dear viewers, this street
10:54is the one that they think the family took.
10:56Do you see that now it is cut off?
10:58Of course, it is denied, it is full of water.
11:00And on some route of this street,
11:02the water began to win
11:04the vehicle of the Hecker family
11:06and unfortunately,
11:08we would love to know where it went,
11:10but at some point here
11:12the family was lost.
11:14Mariana Hecker
11:16is the aunt of the two missing girls
11:18and she told us that