On August 16, it will be one year since the terrible forest fire that devastated the town of BejÃs, in the province of Castellón. The episode made the main headlines after it reached some train tracks at the height of the municipality of Caudiel, completely surrounding a convoy that was circulating full of passengers on them.
The incident left 14 people injured and caused panic among its occupants, both the crew and the passengers. Now, months after the true hell experienced inside it, the En boca de todos program has exclusive access to the images recorded from the train itself, and which attest to the horror scenes that took place there.
“There are two key questions: why does the train go into the flames? And who tells the passengers to get off?” Nacho Abad wondered from the set of Cuatro’s space. To try to answer them, the journalist has introduced the recording of Isabel Irlandés, a traveler in the convoy who asked the emergency services for help. “We are on the train tracks, on the way to Valencia because the fire is towards Teruel,” she reported by phone.
The woman was traveling with her two children and was injured with third-degree burns to her face, arms, and legs. Now, she has spoken with the program to verify her testimony again. “After 9 months that she is going to do this May, (we continue) the three of us psychologically touched and undergoing treatment,” she recounted live.
On everyone’s lips he has shown the real audios of the passengers who were inside the train, like Isabel. “I’m not going to hang up until they come,” one of the travelers told the emergency services, recounting the state of the victims. “I have another younger girl who has burns all over the left side,” she recounted on the phone.
In the recordings, the desperate screams of the passengers of the convoy are also heard when they are engulfed by the flames, while the traveler continues to speak with emergencies. “Don’t hang up on me in case this woman collapses on me,” she pleaded. “I am a passenger who has studies in emergencies and I have taken charge of the situation,” she later said.
Not only have the recordings of the train passengers come to light, but also the call of the railway engineer herself to the control center. “Fire is surrounding us,” he is heard saying in search of help. “I can’t, I can’t,” said the driver, completely desperate, after being asked to try to “go back.”
“I can’t move the train because an alarm has gone off or something. It’s giving me a headache,” were the engineer’s last words before cutting off the call. “I was in a panic, and the panic transferred to the other passengers,” Isabel recalled right after.
