The special security operation for the Night of Cremà in Valencia will be made up of 460 agents this year – 380 of them firefighters in charge of fire control -, with reinforcements in the Fallas monuments and fire zones close to buildings with ventilated facades.

The measure has been adopted after the fire of the residential building in the Campanar neighborhood on February 22, in which ten people died, reports the council.

Firefighters have determined the need to change location or increase the distance of the monuments in two fault commissions: the Pintor Maella-France-Menorca fault and the L’Horta Sud-La Costera fault.

The location of the fire zone of the Escultor García Mas-Puerto de Santa María fault commission will also be changed, as well as that of the Doctor Gil and Morte-Vila Barberá fault.

The delegate councilor for Firefighters, Juan Carlos Caballero, has explained that the objective is to eliminate any risk that may exist and avoid any concern or anxiety to the neighbors during the cremà of the Fallas monuments.

Caballero has stressed: “any effort is insufficient to minimize any impact on the buildings” and the council is aware that there is greater sensitivity among Valencians with this type of buildings.

For this reason, he explained, the municipal fire service has attended to any request that has been made by individuals or neighbors to guarantee the greatest possible safety during the Night of the Cremà and minimize any damage to the buildings.

A special device with 460 agents

The Municipal Fire Department has mobilized 460 agents in the special security device for the Fallas festivals, and the bulk of this number will be in charge of controlling the cremà of the Fallas monuments.

Specifically, 380 firefighters and a hundred vehicles will monitor the combustion of a hundred city failures considered risky because they are located in small squares, with trees, nearby homes or monuments, or have high or complicated edges.

To the entire deployment of firefighters, we must add the 250 civil protection volunteers for a Night of the Cremà that will begin at 8 p.m. on the night of the 19th, with the children’s Fallas, and will conclude at 11:30 p.m., with the municipal failure.

The 384 large falls spread throughout the city “will burn in a staggered manner so that firefighters can ensure that all the monuments burn and fall correctly,” Caballero assured.

The delegate councilor for Firefighters has also detailed that, prior to some of these creams, to avoid collateral damage, firefighters will refresh the surroundings of the faults that are in very limited locations with water hoses.

“The firefighters will finish their work when the last failure of the city is burned and will give way to the cleaning work so that the next day the city wakes up as if nothing had happened,” he specified.

Caballero recalled that the work of the firefighters, regarding the Fallas, began with the review of the facades of the buildings in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and with the inspection of the tents of the city’s Fallas commissions to guarantee elements such as access and emergency exits.

A protocol that is part of the 2024 Fallas Prevention Plan that includes all the tools, resources and security and emergency plans to cover, among other Fallas events, 21 mascletaes and 12 fireworks castles.