A minor of 15 years and a woman of 35 have lost their lives in the fire of the house declared this morning on a fourth floor of a block of houses in the neighborhood of Hispanidad de Huelva, as confirmed by the territorial delegate of Health of the Junta de Andalucía, Manuela Caro.

Caro, who has moved to the scene, Salvador Rueda Street , number 10, together with the delegate of the Andalusian Government in Huelva, Bella Verano, has also reported that there are nine other people admitted, seven of them in the hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez and two in the Infanta Elena; among them, a baby who is in the Intensive Care Unit.

On the other hand, from the City Council of Huelva they have informed Efe that at 7:39 a.m. a notice has been received for the fire, at 7:41 a.m. nine firefighters leave the park along with three vehicles, a light urban pump, another heavy and an autoscale and at 8:00 a cargo vehicle with two more firefighters is incorporated.

Firefighters have rescued a total of 11 people from the fourth floor of the building, nine who were in the affected house and two more people who were on the adjoining floor, while the building is being evicted.

They have also been affected by the action, smoke and falling rubble, two firefighters and two local police who have had to be transferred to hospitals.

At 9:14 a.m. the firefighters' action has been terminated leaving the plant closed that the one that produced the fire; the rest of the evicted neighbors have been able to return to their homes.

In the area is the National Police Judicial team, which is the one in charge of investigating the causes of the fire.

Remember that there were more than a dozen calls that alerted 112 this morning about the presence of flames in the house, noting that there were several people in the damaged building asking for help.

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