The polyurethane coating of the façade of the Valencia building and the strong gusts of wind, more than 60 km/h last Thursday, became a fire bomb at number 77 General Avilés Street in a few minutes. It all started on the fifth floor, possibly in the motor of an electric awning.

The firefighters were "overwhelmed" by a fire whose development was "very rapid" and "was not normal" In Spain, the most recent case of a fire of this size was the Windsor Tower in Madrid in 2005.