Efe

Updated Saturday, March 23, 2024-07:30

Two people have been

seriously injured

in a fire that broke out in a building on

Tejedores Street

in the Madrid district of

San Blas

this morning, according to information provided by Emergencies Madrid.

Members of the Madrid Fire Department affirm that the fire broke through the rear façade of a four-story building, and they have had to rescue a person in a house that had a fully developed fire and another parallel rescue of two others facade.

They then performed a

first aid

CPR maneuver on an injured person until the arrival of the Samur health workers, who proceeded to resuscitate him in cardiorespiratory arrest for 18 minutes, with burns on almost 40% of his body, he was intubated and transferred to the hospital. La Paz hospital with serious prognosis.

Also a woman in her 70s who was

seriously injured with burns

required intubation and was taken to La Paz.

Madrid Police and National Police collaborate in the emergency. The fire has been extinguished according to information provided by the Madrid Fire Department.