The first indications about the place where the gas explosion could originate in a building in Valladolid, in which a 53-year-old woman lost her life, point to the home of the fatal victim, although it will be the Scientific Police that determine the causes and the place where it occurred.
The accidental mayoress of Valladolid, Irene Carvajal, together with commanders of the Fire Department, the Local Police and workers from the cleaning service, among other groups, have reported at a press conference the details that are currently known about the explosion that It took place yesterday, Tuesday, at building number 32 on Calle Goya, in the south of the city.
Carvajal has explained that apparently the gas explosion was caused on the first floor, where the body was found, on the first C, although he has qualified that it is being investigated and definitive information is missing, so it is not yet certain that it happened at that point.
The event, of which the National and Local Police received notice at 10:45 p.m., after which they arrived at the scene, just as the Firefighters did, injured eleven people, although the provisional list of the Emergency Service initially included to ten with ages between 22 and 89 years.
The acting councilor has specified that six of the injured were taken to the University Clinical Hospital, where they have already been discharged, and another five to the Río Hortega Hospital, where two are in the ICU, stable within gravity, another two in observation and one has been discharged.
He has clarified that the two people who are in the ICU do not have burns, although they have been affected by smoke inhalation and one of them, elderly, suffers from previous cardiorespiratory pathologies.
Carvajal, who has specified that there are no minors among the injured, has stated that the property in which the explosion occurred is made up of twenty homes, although due to the dates, a large part of the residents were on vacation at the time of the event, and He has said that it was necessary to evacuate twelve people, nine of them by scale and the rest by their own means.
Of the people who had to be evacuated, four were housed in hotels in the city, specified the acting mayor, who stated that the City Council is concerned first and foremost about the people, who had psychological care given the impact of what happened. and in some cases also from the health emergency services due to anxiety crises.
He has explained that the accommodation of people in the affected building in hotels is a provisional solution, since a more stable response is going to be proposed with the bag of the municipal housing and land society of Valladolid, VIVA, where there are nine houses for accommodate those who need it.
Those affected by the explosion may receive advice through the Local Police telephone number 092, where they may raise doubts, suggestions, claims, questions and any question that may arise.
The mayoress has specified that the full certification of the identification of the deceased woman will still take time, since the Scientific Police have collected DNA samples that will be sent to the National Institute of Toxicology.
Apparently, the event was a gas explosion, although Firefighters commanders have indicated that it is not yet possible to determine whether it was natural gas, for which part of the property had connections, or cylinders, which was the system used by others. building residents.
As for the property, the structure is seriously affected on the floors with letter B and C and it will probably be necessary to demolish the building, not totally but partially, where the least damaged part will have to be rebuilt.
Carvajal has thanked the work of all the services that collaborated after the explosion and has cited among them the cleaning service, which provided shovels with its operators and two trucks to facilitate access for the Firefighters, since there was rubble at a thousand degrees of temperature.
The Firefighters had to spend about two hours to control the fire that broke out after the explosion and continue with the work to extinguish it, since there are sources that are rekindled.
For the Fire Fighting Service, the most complicated part of the tasks to put out the fire was located in a repair shop located on the ground floor of the building, where there were eight vehicles and a motorcycle, which meant a load of fire ” brutal”.
The building in which the event was recorded is from the 70s, it will be about 53 years old and had passed the regulatory Technical Building Inspection (ITE), while the next one would have corresponded to it next year.
The mayor of Valladolid, Jesús Julio Carnero, will return from the vacation he was enjoying outside Valladolid to visit the injured and also go to the area of ??the event.
