A man has died this Friday after falling into a bonfire and not being able to get out of it in the municipality of Gimenells i el Pla de la Font (Lleida). The Generalitat Fire Brigade received the notice at 10:15 p.m. and immediately activated two crews that went to the location, where there was the traditional Sant Joan bonfire. the two endowments they put out the fire quickly so that the troops of the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) could access the wounded man, but without success.
Patrols from the Mossos d’Esquadra Investigation Unit have moved to the scene of the events, which have taken charge of the legal proceedings and the investigation of the accident.
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the fire brigade has responded to 144 calls between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. this Friday, most of them due to fires: 48 of them involving vegetation (urban, agricultural and forest) and 41 due to other types of fires (containers, vehicles, homes and industry). Most of the warnings have occurred in the regions of the Barcelonan (eleven), segrià (11 and Baix Llobregat (10).
Among the relevant actions that the emergency department has received, there are several fires caused by fireworks. In Salt, 6 crews responded to a notice of a house fire caused by a firecracker that set a fiberglass roof on fire; in Lleida, he has burned a tent where there was no one at the time; in Castelldans, Sant Vicenç de Castellet and in Salou, several crews have controlled small forest fires. In addition, in Salou, the Bombers have controlled another fire in an electrical panel of a holiday apartmentwhich has caused the family to spend the night elsewhere.