A large deployment of firefighters extinguished the fire that broke out in the building on Alfonso
The Police investigate the event as arson and the neighbors point to a resident who was expelled from one of the apartments days ago.
The deceased belong to the same family
Four people have died from asphyxiation and nine more – one of them a firefighter – were injured this morning in the fire of a building located on Alfonso
The neighbors point to a resident that days ago he was expelled from one of the apartments as the person responsible for planting the fire. Residents of the area have assured that the building was occupied and that they had warned of problems. Scientific Police Officers They have already cordoned off access to the building to gather evidence to explain the cause of the fire.
The greatest tragedy of these characteristics in Vigo
Although 112 reported that the four victims were minors and the Vigo City Council noted that it had doubts about the age of one of them, residents of the building have explained to Faro de Vigo, from the Prensa Ibérica group, that the deceased are a woman, about 30 years old, and three of her children, between 11 and 14, approximately. Her husband and another daughter, 6 years old, are among the injured and have been taken to hospital with burns. They lived on the fourth floor of the property, in an apartment with a large amount of belongings that helped spread the flames.
The firefighters from Vigo They worked intensely for hours on the extinction of the fire, which started around 4:00 in the number 6 of the aforementioned road. The flames were extinguished around 7:00, when the troops began to withdraw. One of them also had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
According to the aforementioned sources, the fire broke out in access to this five-story building, with five homes in each one, in the As Travesas neighborhood, very close to Plaza América. There were about 30 people in the building; all those that were not directly affected have been evacuated and, of them, nine have already been rehoused in the Marqués de Valterra municipal shelter.
Eviction
Official sources have explained that some of the injuries occurred during the evacuation. Instead of obeying the instructions of the Firefighters, who asked them to leave calmly, They rushed towards the portalgenerating a small collapse.
In addition to the Vigo Firefighters, 112 mobilized 061, the Local and National Police and professionals from the Official College of Psychologists of Galicia, specialized in serious emergencies. The injured were transferred to the Álvaro Cunqueiro and Povisa hospitals.
The mayor, Abel Caballero, and the councilors Carlos López Font, Patricia Rodríguez Calviño and Yolanda Aguiar have traveled to the place. The councilor and the president of the Xunta. Alfonso Rueda, will visit the wounded throughout the day.
Testimonials
A young man who lives with his mother in the third has narrated: “If I didn’t wake her up she would be dead. We screamed that we were locked in a room, the firefighters helped us. The deceased are three of my little cousins. I don’t know how the fire started, if it was a spark or if they poured gasoline. “I think it was provoked, that they poured gasoline.”
Víctor and María live in front of the burned building. His son alerted them: “Dad, fire.” They raised the blinds and saw the building opposite on fire. “I saw the flare in the doorway,” describes Víctor. The scene was very hard. “The people in the building were screaming, those in the first one jumped into the alley, other residents were hanging from the window…”, they describe.
They report that it took at least half an hour for the firefighters to arrive, a claim that the City Council denies, stating that it took six minutes between when the warning was given and when they arrived at the area. Among those rescued later, they saw several unconscious and with burns. They regret that this is the chronicle of a tragedy foretold.