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At the stroke of three o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, a hundred relatives of the people missing in the fire of the Murcia nightclub La Fonda de los Milagros waited to know if their loved ones were among the 13 confirmed deceased so far. They waited for news together in the Palacio de los Deportes de Murcia, just 150 meters from the room where the fire broke out, and surrounded by the team that the Red Cross had moved to the place to attend them.

The psychologist Luis Pérez Molina is part of it, who in conversation with this newspaper, defined the state in which the group was at that time as "of a certain calm. " They are hungry for information, with the suspense of not knowing if their family member is in some conditions or others, waiting to receive more concrete news from the authorities. There will be people whose family member has died, but the window is open that he may be in the hospital or I include that he has left the premises before the fire and has still been located today, "explained the situation of uncertainty through which he passed. "It is a moment in which if you hurry me, understand, they are even calm in quotation marks, because they have already given the pertinent information of each of their relatives and are waiting for them to tell them something else, in a stand by, calmer than when they suddenly arrive at the place where they have been summoned. " The relatives, explained the expert, had spent the morning in tension giving an account of the person they had disappeared and any physical features, clothing or tattoos that could lead to their recognition.

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The fire of the nightclub in Murcia, in pictures

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Pérez Molina is a volunteer psychologist of the Red Cross Immediate Emergency Response Group (ERIE), specifically the Psychosocial Intervention subgroup, dedicated to providing psychological first aid and human support to victims of tragedies such as the one that happened early Sunday morning in Murcia. He belongs to the group of three psychologists, seven accompanying lifeguards, five emergency health technicians, two nurses, a social worker and a member of the Autonomous Operations Center, mobilized after the request of 112 from different parts of the region – he resides in Yecla – about 11.00 am on Sunday. "Upon arrival we met a group of six families, each with a missing person. It has proceeded at that time to the psychological attention and support of those who needed it most, who were in a state of greater restlessness or anxiety, "he said about the intervention in the first moments. "Throughout the morning many more families have been added to reach a hundred people approximately," he added.

Faced with a situation of this type, he said, his intervention is limited to accompanying them and attending to any type of crisis they may have: "Anxiety, stress ... We try to help them to produce self-control, to regulate their breathing, to provide them with tranquility. We try to use the group itself, the neighbors, friends and family who accompany them, we try to make them respond to that closest support they need and, when that occurs, we take a step back because we know that this support is the best help they can have, "says Luis Pérez Molina, who has been working as a volunteer for two decades and has covered the care of refugees who arrive by boat. to those affected by the volcano of La Palma, relatives of victims of traffic accidents or people who have committed suicide. They also accompany people who have to recognize the body of a loved one, as, unfortunately, will happen in this case. "We attend to the immediate response that the body has at the physiological level when a shock of this type occurs, we begin to work with what would be the beginning of a possible duel and possibly also require tomorrow our resources to accompany those who have to go to make a recognition, "explains the psychologist.

In the coverage of this emergency due to the fire started in the La Fonda room, they will be relieved in shifts – "other colleagues will come in the afternoon and at night" so as not to leave families ever alone. Your care may last until the time of the funeral. "Our intervention is immediate. If the person subsequently needs more psychological help, we refer them to the relevant services."

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