The Forest fire of Bejis (Castellon) has put the province in check and has been out of control since early this afternoon, causing dramatic situations and leaving, in its wake, injuries, not only among the firefighters fighting the fire on the front line, but also among the passengers of a train from Valencia and that covered the València Nord-Zaragoza-Miraflores route that has been surprised by the flames and where more than a dozen of varying severity have resulted, as sources from the Ministry of Health have confirmed to this newspaper and the Red Cross of Segorbe and who have been treated by various health means including a medicalized helicopter due to the fractures and burns they present.
one of the three seriously injured Due to burns, he has been transferred by helicopter to La Fe and the other two by SAMU to La Fe and to the Clinic in the Turia capital. Another person with less serious burns has been taken to the Minife de Sagunto in SVB. Also, there are between 8 and 10 injured mild that have been transferred in TNA to the field hospital that has been set up in Jérica. Among these injured is a girl between 8 and 10 years old.
To attend to this emergency, two Samu, three SVB, three TNA, a helicopter and an Emergency with Multiple Victims truck have been mobilized.
According to Renfe sources, the incident occurred around 6:00 p.m. between Masadas Blancas and Barracas, when a medium-distance convoy that covered the Valencia Nord-Zaragoza Miraflores route and that had left the Turia capital at 4:22 p.m. with 48 travelers, had to stop due to the proximity of the fire in the area and returned to Caudiel.
During the stop made by the train driver in the presence of the fire, several passengers, according to Renfe, have broken the windows and through these have gotten off the train. “When these have been surrounded by the fire they have risen again and some of them had burns. These have been treated at the Caudiel station,” the same official sources have confirmed. Circulation has been suspended and alternative road transport is planned. From Renfe they have assured that thanks to the prompt action of the driver who has asked passengers not to leave the wagons while they have changed engines to return to Caudiel, “greater evils have been avoided“.
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The fire has also surprised the firefighters themselves, both from the Castellón Provincial Consortium, as well as from the Generalitat Valenciana and the Castelló City Council, who have also traveled to the Alto Palancia area to fight the increasingly dangerous flames.
The fire has already burned houses in the urban center of Torás, where the Montehoyuelo urbanization has been one of the most affected.