València has mobilized to help the more than 400 people who have lost everything due to the fire that has devastated their homes in the burned-out building. The City Council, the Generalitat Valenciana and the Provincial Council have mobilized specialist human resources to attend to them, among these psychologists. But also, companies, neighborhood associations and even Fallas commissions have made themselves available to the victims in a wave of solidarity unprecedented in Valencia.
All the people affected by the fire declared yesterday in the Campanar neighborhood, in Valencia, who have requested accommodation are already relocated to hotels in the city, according to the City Council, while the displays of solidarity from the residents of the area continue. . Some of the affected people are in Tabacalera, a municipal facility.
The fire originated around 5:30 p.m. on the fifth floor of a fourteen-story building located at the intersection of General Avilés and Maestro Rodrigo streets, and has spread quickly to the entire building and also to another adjacent building. The affected building has 138 properties, including homes, shops and offices. The City Council has offered accommodation to the affected residents, and although the majority have chosen to stay in the homes of family and friends, those who have needed it have already been transferred to hotels.
The neighbors have set up a commercial establishment in the area as a meeting point for those affected, where they are distributing blankets, clothing and food, and a list of the people who live in the burned property is being prepared to see if they are all there. Amalia Correcher, a worker at this location that offers refresher classes, reinforcement of self-esteem or emotional intelligence and also has a gym, is one of the people who is coordinating the receipt of all this material aid, as she told the EFE agency.
He explained that they have been direct witnesses of the fire and how people have lost everything, so they have made an appeal through their WhatsApp groups to ask for collaboration, and the response has been massive. The neighborhood has made a spectacular demonstration of bravery and solidarity,” says Correcher, who points out that people have donated clothes, blankets or slippers, and have brought food and even medicine.
The Falla Maestro Rodrigo-General Avilés assures that he will open his school this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. to collect “essential items, prioritizing children’s clothing, footwear and toiletries.” Among possible needs to be confirmed, they ask for “footwear sizes 41 and 43, socks, men’s clothing size 52, underwear and any type of personal hygiene product”
