A 101-year-old woman lost her life this morning in the fire of a home located at 35 Magallanes Street in the center of Santander. The 112 Emergency Service received the notification around six in the morning that the fire was breaking out in a room of the house, where the woman with reduced mobility was.
112 then mobilized 061, National Police, Local Police and Santander firefighters, who found the fire fully developed in the room and the deceased woman. According to sources from the Santander City Council, firefighters were able to control the fire in a short time, but the closest neighbors were evacuated for a few moments as a precaution.
The house where the events occurred is located on the sixth floor of the building, so the firefighters report that they have encountered “difficulty” in accessing it given that numerous neighbors were leaving their homes and “collapsing” the stairwell. . Neighbors say that around six in the morning “altered voices” were heard coming from the home of the deceased, who moved in a wheelchair and was accompanied by her caregiver.
Although the firefighters indicate that in the event of a fire in a building the staircase is the most dangerous place, the residents point out that they were “very afraid”, especially after what happened recently in the Valencia building, in which the fire burned all 14 floors. and left ten fatalities.
Barcelona and Zamora have also been the scene of fires in recent hours with several victims. In the Castilian-Leonese city, a 52-year-old man died this Sunday in the fire of a house at number 116 of the Hiniesta de Zamora highway. The event occurred before 8:15 a.m. When the emergency services arrived at the scene they were only able to confirm the death of the man.
While in the Catalan capital three people have been injured, two of them in critical condition, due to smoke inhalation in a fire in a house in the Trinitat Vella neighborhood, in the Barcelona district of Sant Andreu. The firefighters received notification at 8:36 a.m. that a fire had broken out in a home located on the ground floor of an apartment building located at numbers 31-33 Foradada Street.