4 people died by drowning and nine more people, including a firefighter, were injured in a fire at a building in Alfonso this morning.
Neighbors are pointing resident He was kicked out of one of the apartments as the person who started the fire that day. Local residents assured the building was occupied and said they warned against problems. Scientific Police Officers They’ve already cordoned off the entrance to the building Collecting evidence to explain the cause of the fire.
The greatest tragedy of these features in Vigo
Although 112 reported that the four victims were minors and the Vigo City Council stated that they had doubts about the age of one of them, residents of the building told Faro de Vigo from the Prensa Ibérica group that the dead were A woman in her 30s and her three children aged 11 to 14, approx. Among the injured, his wife and another 6-year-old daughter were hospitalized with burns. They lived in an apartment on the fourth floor of the property, where there were many items that helped spread the flames.
firefighters from Vigo They worked hard for hours extinction The fire broke out around 04:00. number 6 The road in question. The flames were extinguished around 07:00 when the soldiers started to withdraw. One of them also had to be treated due to smoke inhalation.
According to the sources mentioned above, fire Access to this five-story buildingIn the As Travesas neighborhood, very close to Plaza América, with five houses each. There were approximately 30 people in the building; all those not directly affected evacuated and nine of them have already been rehoused in the Marqués de Valterra municipal shelter.
Evacuation
Official sources announced that some injuries occurred during the evacuation. Instead of following the instructions of the Firefighters who calmly asked them to leave, They ran towards the portalcausing a minor collapse.
In addition to 112, Vigo Firefighters, 061, Local and National Police and Professionals from the Official College of Psychologists of Galicia, specializes in serious emergencies. The injured were transferred to Álvaro Cunqueiro and Povisa hospitals.
Mayor Abel Caballero and council members Carlos López Font, Patricia Rodríguez Calviño and Yolanda Aguiar went here. Councilor and president of Xunta. Alfonso Rueda will visit the injured throughout the day.
Opinions
A young man living with his mother in the third house said: “If I had not woken him up, he would have died. We shouted that we were locked in a room, firefighters helped us. The dead are three of my younger cousins. I don’t know how the fire started, whether there were sparks or whether they spilled gasoline. “I think the gasoline dumps were provoked.”
Víctor and María live in front of the burning building. Their son warned them: “Father, fire.” They lifted the curtains and saw that the building opposite was on fire. “I saw the flare in the doorway,” Víctor recounts. The scene was very difficult. “People in the building were screaming, people in the first building jumped into the alley, other residents were hanging from the windows…” they describe.
They report that it took at least half an hour for firefighters to arrive; The City Council denies this claim and states that six minutes passed between the time the warning was given and their arrival on site. Later, many unconscious and burned people were seen among those rescued. They regret that this is a chronicle of a foretold tragedy.