A woman in her 80s has died and three more people have been seriously injured in the fire at a nursing home

on Baltasar Gracián street in Seville

that occurred shortly before midnight.

According to Efe sources from 112 and Emergencies of the City Council, around 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday a notice was received that warned that

a fire had started

in the aforementioned residence, where a firefighting operation has immediately directed , Local Police and Health Emergencies.

In addition to the deceased and the three seriously injured people who have been transferred to hospitals, there are

another 68 elderly among unharmed and slightly injured as

a result of this event.

The Local Police has cut off access to the street and has warned not to circulate on it, informing on their social networks that "it is necessary to clear the roads for access and exit from emergency services", while the City Council You have activated the local emergency plan.

In the area, located near the Santa Justa station, there are dozens of neighbors who have gone out

on a frigid night

to help the elderly as they can, providing them with blankets and masks, as they have gone out on the street. in a hurry only with pajamas or robes, with the temperature touching zero degrees.

The City Council has enabled

the San Pablo Sports Center

to transport the elderly in mediated buses, so that they at least spend the night there, with the help, among other services, of the Social Service Unit, which has been activated.

However, as an alternative,

other residences in the Sevillian capital and its surroundings

have been notified

to

distribute the evicted in rooms that they have free, and it seems that this is the option that will finally be applied.

The total number of evicted people is unknown, although the residence has a capacity for

108 people.

To get people out on the street,

a human chain

has had to be organized

,

which has been working in a coordinated way to put grandparents out of danger.

If

not the causes of the fire are known

, although it is believed to have been started on the third floor of the residence where the work focus of firefighters.

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