A 40-year-old man died and a 53-year-old man was hospitalized this afternoon from smoke inhalation. After a house fire on Calle Embajadores in the Arganzuela (Madrid) region, Europa Press Emergencias Madrid reported.
Flames erupted from the fourth floor of a seven-story building at number 55. street ambassadors. The head of the Madrid Fire Brigade, Juan Monteverde, explained that it was a “large-scale fire with a high fire load and breaking the front”.
Eleven Madrid Fire Brigades participated extinguish the flamestasks undertaken in a coordinated manner, both externally and internally. On arrival at the scene, “Due to the large load of furniture that had accumulated in the house and the size of about 150 square metres, the intensity of the fire was very high, which prevented rapid progress as the fire load created a high enough temperature for the equipment to reach,” Monteverde explained.
Firefighters, who extinguished the flames and reached the house where the fire broke out, found the lifeless body of a 40-year-old man inside the house.. Samur-Civil Protection Plumbing confirmed that he died after suffering burns incompatible with life.
In addition, doctors from the Sable-Civil Protection field treated the 53-year-old man, who, despite leaving the building on his own, was intoxicated by the smoke that was later transported to the Jiménez Díaz Foundation on a prudent guess. foot.
Likewise, firefighters rescued a three-month-old baby, who was on the sixth floor, from the front and his caregiver, in this case, up the stairs.
The toilets also treated three Firefighters, one of whom suffered first degree burns from suffocation or fatigue from the high temperatures. It is very small in the hand, as Juan Carlos Gómez, the guard superintendent of the Sable-Civil Protection, explains.
After the incident, the Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality, Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida expressed his condolences. He wrote on his personal Twitter account, “We are saddened by the death of one person after the fire on Embajadores street, I send all my love to his family and friends.”
Likewise, the Madrid councilor appreciated the “rapid action” of the City Council Fire Brigade and the Sable-Civil Protection, “which made it possible to save the life of a woman and a newborn baby,” he said. “.