This Wednesday, Samur-Civil Protection health workers treated 11 people for mild poisoning after a fire started on the ground floor of a 10-story building located in the Madrid neighborhood of Orcasur, in the Usera district, which has been quickly extinguished by firefighters.
The fire originated around 9:00 a.m. this Wednesday in a room on the ground floor of a 10-story building located at 25 Campotejar Street, in the Usera district, as reported by Emergencies Madrid through its social networks.
Up to eight fire crews from the Madrid City Council went to the scene of the fire, quickly controlling and extinguishing the fire, although the spread of smoke through the stairwell forced two neighbors to be rescued from the façade of the third floor. and another person down the stairwell.
When the firefighters arrived, the fire was “quite developed” and the tenants of the burned apartment, who had left on their own, had left the door open, so “the staircase was flooded with smoke and it made it difficult for us to inspection and evacuation tasks of people”.
“Basically the room, a bedroom where the fire occurred, has been affected. The rest of the rooms have been affected by smoke, but there has not been widespread damage, only in the room where the fire occurred,” explained the Chief of the Madrid Fire Department, Jesús Borruel.
Berruel has insisted that, because the tenants “have left the door open”, this has caused “the flooding of smoke throughout the stairwell”, which “has made it difficult to inspect and evacuate people.” .
For this reason, the Samur-Civil Protection health workers have had to treat 11 people with initial assessments of “intoxicated but very minor”, and that “none have required hospital transfer”, as explained by the duty supervisor of the Samur-Civil Protection. SAMUR-PC, Antonio Cabezas.
“The advice of firefighters whenever these circumstances occur is to close the door, take the key and wait for the emergency services to give them the key and all the information about what may be happening inside,” the guard chief reiterated. of Madrid Firefighters, Jesús Borruel.
Finally, Samur Social has offered a housing alternative to the tenants of the affected apartment.
