A 56-year-old man died this morning during a fire in a house on San Pedro de Cardeña street, in the Hortaleza district of Madrid, an event that also required the attention of nine patients, all of a mild nature, sources have reported. Madrid emergencies. The Firefighters of the City Council displaced to the place have extinguished "a very developed fire" that had broken through a window of the damaged apartment and had spread to the upper house, proceeding to rescue several neighbors through the façade and another in the stairwell of the building.
A spokesman for the firefighters has indicated that the work to extinguish the fire has been carried out efficiently and quickly, and that after locating two occupants of the damaged home, they informed the firefighters that there could be another person inside the floor, which was confirmed shortly after when the deceased was located in one of the rooms. When verifying during the technical inspection that there was damage to some joists, the damaged home was propped up.
The Samur Civil Protection confirmed the death of the man and treated nine patients due to smoke inhalation, all mild and discharged at the same place of the event, and a firefighter injured during the intervention with minor injuries.
The Samur Social has rehoused the two neighbors of the damaged home who were not damaged during the incident.
