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Fire At least four dead in the huge fire that devastated a housing complex in Valencia
Valencian C. The facades of the buildings burned in Valencia were covered with flammable material: "The polyurethane turned it into a chimney"
The
four fatalities
confirmed for the moment as a result of the fire of two buildings this Thursday in the Campanar neighborhood in Valencia, in which
19 missing persons are being searched,
join the numerous victims of fires recorded in homes in recent years in Spain , whose causes ranged
from short circuits to poorly extinguished cigarettes or braziers.
The most tragic
incident
to date occurred on July 7, 1992 when
twelve people
- nine Polish nationals and three Spaniards - died of asphyxiation when a block of flats caught fire in the Madrid town of
Móstoles.
The origin of the event, in which 17 were also injured, was
a cigarette that burned a
foam mattress and, when trying to extinguish it on a terrace, ignited in a few seconds the façade of the building, built with polyester fiber materials.
Among the victims were three children.
Among the fires with the highest number of fatalities are also
three recorded in nursing homes:
the one that occurred on January 19, 2022 in a nursing home in Moncada (Valencia), where nine elderly people died;
the one recorded on July 12, 2015 in a nursing home in Zaragoza, resulting in eight deaths;
and the one that occurred in a residence in Seville, on February 8, 2010, where seven elderly people died.
Seven people also died in a fire that took place on February 8, 2010 in a nursing home located at number 98 Marqués de Nervión Street, in the capital of Seville.
Six people - a married couple, three daughters and the boyfriend of one of them - were claimed by the fire that occurred on April 20, 2008
in a single-family home in Écija (Seville).
Six other people,
all from the same family,
died on February 22, 2014, in a rural house in the Burgos municipality of Tordomar.
The victims - the grandmother, 59, her daughters, 35 and 36, as well as three minors - had gathered to celebrate the matriarch's birthday.
According to the annual Fire Victims in Spain study, carried out between the Mapfre Foundation and the Professional Association of Fire Technicians (APTB),
fires or explosions killed 164 people in 2020,
one less than in 2019, and Of these, 119 took place in homes, which recorded an average of 47 fires per day, mainly caused by the misuse of plugs and power strips.
To these figures we could add the number of people killed by fires in other residential buildings such as senior residences, student residences or prisons;
and in substandard housing such as shanties, industrial or abandoned buildings occupied by indigent or homeless people.
This is the chronology of fires recorded in homes or homes
since 1992 in Spain
with the result of at least three fatalities (fires recorded in nursing homes and geriatric homes are also included, given that this was the place where the victims lived)
03/01/1992.- Four children, aged between six months and four years, as well as their grandmother, 57, died from asphyxiation when a fire broke out - caused by a short circuit - in their home in the municipality of Narón (La Coruña).
04/09/1992.- A fire caused by a short circuit causes the death of three people, a father and his two children, who were surprised by the fire and toxic gases when they were trying to leave their home, in the Plá neighborhood, in Alicante.
04/29/1992.- Three people die and two others suffer very serious injuries in a fire caused by recklessness in a home in Palencia.
07.07.1992.- Twelve people - nine of Polish nationality and three Spaniards - died of asphyxiation when a block of flats caught fire in the town of Móstoles (Madrid).
The incident, in which 17 were also injured, began after a cigarette burned a foam mattress, which, when trying to extinguish it on a terrace, ignited in a few seconds the façade of the building, built with polyester fiber materials. .
Three minors, among the deceased.
08/31/1992.- A grandfather and his two grandchildren, aged 6 and 3, died of asphyxiation due to a fire in a home in Zamora, attributed to a short circuit.
11/14/1992.- Five people, including a three-year-old child, died when a country house caught fire in Benifayó (Valencia), which burned when the fire from the embers of a bonfire reached the door of the house.
01/04/1993.- A couple and their two children, aged 8 and 4, die of asphyxiation while they were sleeping, due to the toxic fumes produced by a fire in the two-story house where they lived in Santa Marta de Tormes (Salamanca).
03/23/1993.- A 44-year-old man and two of his daughters, aged 19 and 17, died in a fire in their home in Malaga, while his wife, the couple's third child and a firefighter were injured by the fire. fire.
03.01.1994.- Four members of the same family - mother, two children and grandson - were burned to death in Baracaldo (Vizcaya) when a fire broke out followed by several gas explosions in the hamlet they lived in, which was completely destroyed.
01/17/1995.- A couple and a woman, all of them elderly, died in Bilbao as a result of an accidental fire that broke out in a residential building and which had its origin in an electric stove installed in the entrance of the building.
04/19/1995.- A woman and two of her daughters die in the fire that broke out in their home in Telde, southeast of Gran Canaria.
02/28/1997.- Three girls under two years of age were burned to death in the fire at the "Dinky" daycare center in Vigo (Pontevedra).
The little girls were sleeping on the upper floor of the nursery, while another twelve children who remained on the ground floor were unharmed.
09/21/1997.- Two minors, aged 12 and 7, died - their mother would do so ten days later - as a result of the fire that broke out at their home in Ceuta.
01/13/1999.- Three people - a couple and a 31-year-old son - died in the Huelva town of Santa Olalla de Cala, as a result of the fire that broke out in the two-story house in which they lived.
02/01/2000.- Four people - a mother and three children aged 11 months, 4 and 2 years - died in the fire inside the prefabricated house in which they lived in Bailén (Jaén).
06.03.2000.- Five people are killed in a fire that broke out in a building, apparently uninhabited, on Hornachos Street, number 3, Entrevías, in the southeast of Madrid.
05.01.2001.- Two minors and their mother, of British nationality, died in the fire that broke out in their home in the town of Coín (Málaga), while the grandmother was injured.
12.29.2001.- Five young people between 19 and 24 years of age, members of a "heavy metal" music group, died as a result of a fire in a warehouse in the town of Leganés (Madrid), which they had rented for test.
04/11/2002.- Four people were killed in the fire that broke out in an eight-story building located on Paseo de la Habana, in Madrid.
The fire started at 3:30 in the morning in the entrance hall of the building and spread quickly up the stairs as a result of the "chimney effect."
12.28.2002.- Three people - two children between 5 and 7 years old and a 22-year-old disabled man who was in a wheelchair - died in the fire caused in a house in Vélez-Málaga, which could have been caused by a electric brazier, and in which the children's grandmother was seriously injured.
01/19/2003.- Two brothers, aged 37 and 41, and a friend of theirs die and five other people are poisoned by smoke inhalation as a result of a fire in an apartment in a popular neighborhood of l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, in Barcelona. .
02.08.2003.- A couple and three of their children - aged 23, 15 and three - die in the fire that occurred in the home where they lived in the San Cristóbal neighborhood of Lorca (Murcia).
The accident apparently occurred due to a short circuit.
02/19/2004.- Three people were killed in a fire in a low-rise house in the Madrid town of Villaverde.
03/09/2004.- Three children - two brothers and their cousin, aged 6, 4 and 6, respectively - died as a result of the fire that broke out in a house in the old neighborhood of Balaguer (Lleida), when they were alone.
04/30/2004.- A woman and her two daughters died in Alcira (Valencia) due to a fire caused by her ex-husband, in a house on Juan XXIII street.
07/13/2004.- Three workers died due to the fire that broke out in the bar they were renovating, "El Cubanito" on Calle del Aguila in Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz).
12.12.2004.- Three people die as a result of the fire that broke out in a building in Castelló d'Empuries (Gerona).
A 31-year-old woman of Ecuadorian nationality has been arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the incident.
13.12.2004.- Three people died in a fire that broke out on the third floor of an eleven building in the Empuriabrava urbanization (Gerona).
Two of the victims died after jumping out of the window, and the other, a 22-year-old woman, died from the injuries suffered.
Additionally, three people were injured.
03/11/2005.- Two adults and a 3-year-old child died in a fire that started in a home in the town of Salvatierra (Alava).
06/30/2005.- Three children aged 2, 3 and 5 years old died in the fire at their home in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), in which a one-year-old sister and the children's mother were also slightly injured.
The fire broke out when, apparently, the children were playing with a lighter and the flame accidentally caught on some object.
09.09.2005.- Three young people, between 17 and 18 years old, died from asphyxiation due to smoke poisoning in a fire that broke out in an uninhabited house on the outskirts of Benavente (Zamora).
03/04/2006.- Four men died in the fire that broke out in a pension in Bilbao located on San Francisco Street, one of the most depressed areas of the capital of Biscay and whose buildings, for the most part, are old and made of wooden structures.
03/19/2006.- A couple, their daughter and her husband are found dead inside a country house on the outskirts of Pueyo (Navarra), apparently due to inhalation of smoke generated in a small fire.
03/28/2006.- A total of five people, four men and one woman, died in the fire at the San Lorenzo de Massamagrell residence, which housed mentally ill people, in Utiel (Valencia).
01/29/2007.- Three babies die, two other children are seriously injured and five other people are slightly injured, all of Ecuadorian origin, due to the fire that broke out in the house where they lived in the Teruel town of Torrecilla de Alcañiz.
They were all members of the same family, made up of an Ecuadorian mother and her seven children, as well as the grandmother and aunt.
The fire could have originated in a stove that ignited a curtain.
01.05.2007.- Three elderly people die as a result of burns suffered in the fire that occurred the day before at the "Reyes Católicos" residence in Utiel (Valencia).
The fire was caused by a poorly extinguished cigarette that was lit on a sofa in the residence.
07-29-2007.- Three young people die - at least one of 17 years old - in a fire in a block of flats in Granada, in which they were apparently involved.
The young people allegedly intended to take revenge on a man who attacked a woman with whom he lived in the burned home and who was a relative of one of them.
08-03-2007.- Three people, a couple and a son (38 years old), died in the fire that broke out in a house on Tamarit Street, in Barcelona.
03/27/2008.- The bodies of three people - a father and two male children, aged 30 and 34, disabled - were found after the fire in a house in the town of Aranga, Coruña.
04/20/2008.- Six members of the same family - the couple, their three children and the boyfriend of one of the daughters - die in the fire of their home in Écija (Seville), apparently caused by a brazier or heating device that It could have been left on.
01/30/2009.- A 44-year-old woman and her two children, ages 3 and 9, died in a fire on the fourth floor of a building in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, apparently caused by a short circuit.
02/19/2009.- Four members of a family of Romanian nationality - two minors, their mother and an aunt - died in a fire in a home in Miranda de Ebro (Burgos).
A day later the father of the family died, who was in critical condition, so the death toll finally rose to five.
A failure in the electrical installation, possible cause of the event.
12/31/2009.- Four people - a 57-year-old woman, her two children, aged 20 and 30, and the girlfriend of one of them - all of Peruvian origin, died in a fire in an apartment block on Castillejos Street. of Barcelona, in which another eleven people were slightly injured due to smoke inhalation.
The victims were apparently trapped by a spiral of fire and smoke as they tried to escape down the stairs from the fourth floor.
02/09/2010.- Seven people die and ten are injured in a fire that started shortly before midnight in a nursing home located at number 98 Marqués de Nervión Street, in the capital of Seville.
The incident occurred due to a problem in the electrical circuit of a bed for disabled people.
03.26.2011.- Three sub-Saharan immigrants die in the fire of their shack in Melilla.
06.26.2011.- A couple and their son die in a house fire in Vélez-Málaga.
12/19/2011.- Three people - a couple and a son, 45 years old - died in a fire that started in their home in the Madrid district of Carabanchel.
04/09/2012.- Four people die when the shanty in which they lived on a plot of land in Barcelona catches fire.
01.11.2012.- Three women, aged 35, 37 and 58, all from the same family, died in a fire inside a home in Sabadell (Barcelona), in which a 14-year-old boy was also seriously injured. years old, son of one of the deceased.
02.22.2014.- Six people from the same family die in a fire in a rural house in Tordómar (Burgos).
The victims, residents of Gijón and Madrid, were a 59-year-old woman, her daughters, aged 36 and 35, as well as three minors.
03/26/2014.- Four brothers, aged 3, 5, 8 and 12, died as a result of a fire in an apartment in El Vendrell (Tarragona), in which five people were also injured to varying degrees.
11/13/2014.- Four people - an 11-year-old boy, an 18-year-old young man, and the grandparents of both, in their 70s - died of poisoning from smoke inhalation after a house fire in Arahal (Seville).
12.30.2014.- Three people - a 4-year-old boy, his grandmother, about 70, and her son and the child's uncle, 45 - died when a house caught fire in the urban area of Cehegín, in the Murcia region of Northwest.
07/12/2015.- Eight elderly people die and another twelve are injured in a fire that broke out in the private residence of Santa Fe, in Cuarte de Huerva, 6 kilometers from Zaragoza.
The fire broke out in a mattress in a room located on a floor that did not house any residents.
01.12.2015.- Three people die in a fire in a single-family home, in the parish of San Simón da Costa, in the municipality of Vilalba, Lugo.
05/28/2016.- Five people from the same family, including a 5-year-old child and a four-month-old baby, die in a house fire in Puente Tablas (Jaén).
Apparently, the inhabitants of the house tried to light a fireplace with gasoline, which caused a large explosion.
04/03/2017.- A 21-year-old young man and two girls aged 12 and 15 died when a fire broke out inside a cave house in the area of La Molineta, in the capital of Almería.
Three minors were arrested, one of whom confessed to having set fire to a sofa that was outside the cave, where they used to meet.
05/27/2017.- A fire in the Zorroza neighborhood of Bilbao causes five deaths, four of them - a young couple and their two children - at the time of the fire, and a fifth, the children's grandfather, eleven days later as result of the injuries suffered in the accident.
07/16/2017.- Four people - a couple, their 5-year-old daughter and a family friend - die as a result of a fire that broke out in a house on the beach of El Palmar, a district of Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz) .
The fire originated in the patio of the house due to a candle that lit a plastic table.
11/15/2018.- Three people die - two men and a young woman - in a house fire in the Valencian town of Utiel.
01/05/2019.- Three people die and thirty are injured in the fire of a building in the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona (Barcelona).
An electrical overload on the first floor, where the light was "punctured" and which, according to the neighbors, the tenants occupied irregularly, the main hypothesis for the origin of the event.
01/26/2019.- Three dead in the fire that broke out in a house in the Madrid neighborhood of Puente de Vallecas.
04/18/2019.- A woman and her two minor children, one 3 years old and the other a few months old, die in a fire in their apartment in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona).
11/29/2019.- Three people - a couple and son - die in the fire at their home in Dehesas Viejas (Granada).
01/07/2020.- Two brothers, aged 24 and 15, died and four more people were injured in a fire in a house in the Hispanidad neighborhood of Huelva.
One of the seriously injured was a 16-day-old baby, who died a week later due to burns.
08/14/2020.- Three people die and six are injured, one of them in critical condition, as a result of a virulent fire in the basement of a building in the Barceloneta neighborhood of Barcelona, where six people of Pakistani origin lived. in just 30 square meters.
10.12.2020.- Four migrants die and twenty are injured when a fire breaks out in an occupied warehouse in Badalona (Barcelona).
03/09/2021.- Three bodies found in the fire of a chalet in the Madrid town of El Molar.
Apparently, a man first killed his wife and his 10-year-old daughter and then set the house on fire before committing suicide.
11/17/2021.- The bodies of a mother and her two minor children were found after the fire allegedly caused by the mother in a home in Almería capital.
The police investigation ruled out an accidental start of the fire, due to the "great thermal load and destruction caused by the fire, and due to the location of traces that confirmed the existence of accelerating substances in the room."
11/30/2021.- Four people die - two of them young children - and another four are poisoned when the premises where they lived catches fire in the Plaza de Tetuán in Barcelona.
The couple, made up of a Pakistani and a Romanian, resided irregularly in Spain and had their electricity "connected", according to neighbors.
01/19/2022.- Nine people die and four are injured in the fire that broke out in a nursing home in Moncada (Valencia), due to a short circuit in a power strip.
Five of the elderly died on the same day, while the other four deaths occurred in the following days.
03/24/2022.-Three octogenarian brothers - two men and a woman - died in the fire of the hamlet where they lived in Okondo (Álava), which was completely burned and partially destroyed.
05/04/2022.- Three people die and seven others are injured, one of them seriously, in the fire of a house in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona).
The Mossos and the Local Police had gone to the block several times, in the previous weeks, due to problems of coexistence, loud music and fights between neighbors, one of whom - who was unharmed - had been arrested days before the event for threatening the agents.
01/31/2023.- Three young people, two women and one man, between 20 and 21 years old, died as a result of a house fire in a block of flats in the Isla Chica neighborhood, in Huelva.
A brazier was the origin of the fire.
03/22/2023.- Three people die in a fire that broke out in a residential block in Rubí (Barcelona).
04/03/2023.- A married couple and their 58-year-old son died in a fire in a home located in the Valencian neighborhood of Fuensanta.
11.10.2023.- Three minors and their mother die in the fire of a "squatted" building in Vigo.
Nine people were also injured in the event, two of them very seriously.
02/18/2024.- A fire broke out early last Sunday in a nursing home west of Madrid, in the Aravaca neighborhood, initially causing the death of two women and a third days later after being admitted in critical condition in a hospital center.
02.22.2024.- The Emergency services of the Valencian Community confirm in the early hours of this Friday the discovery of four dead people inside the burned buildings this Thursday in the Valencian neighborhood of Campanar.