The voracious fire that claimed the lives of four members of a family Guillena (Seville) started in two armchairs from the living room of the three-story house. Concretely, the two armchairs which were in a hole under the stairs which went up from the living room to the bedrooms on the second floor. This is how he was able to confirm it OKDIARIO from judicial sources, while it is being investigated whether an electrical fault ignited a spark in the two chairs and released the strong smoke that ended up killing the four members of the Rendón Hidalgo family.
The consequences of the fire which shocked the population of Guillena are the subject of an investigation at the Court of Instruction number 9 of Seville. While waiting for the obligatory reports from the firefighters and fire investigation specialists from the Civil Guard command, the latter carried out a new visual inspection of the house on Monday. In the meantime, preliminary reports from autopsies confirmed that the couple, aged 52 and 48, and their children, aged 21 and 16, death by asphyxiation after inhalation of carbon monoxide from smoke from a fire.
Firefighters arrived at the scene of the Guillena fire “in just 17 minutes”, according to the town’s mayor, Lorenzo Medina Moya. Three teams of firefighters from the neighboring municipalities of Ronquillo and Santiponce. In addition, the 061 health services as well as the Civil Guard and local police were activated. However, the speed with which the fire spread and especially black smoke which flooded the two-story house, preventing the family from escaping with their lives.
They found the bodies together
Firefighters found the bodies of the four family members gathered at the back of the second floor of the house, as if they had tried to go out onto the terrace to, from there, access the stairs that would have taken them to the roof. as the mayor explained.
The house was left completely burned. The troops, after the cooling tasks, carried out a second inspection of the house, as part of the investigations aimed at knowing the origin of the fire.
“There are no words… it’s a sad day for the whole city, a tragedy,” Medina Moya told the EFE agency at the scene of the accident. The town is shocked and devastated by the loss of its four neighbors.
The couple worked in Mercasevilla, in the fruit trade, and the children studied in the town and were part of the municipality’s sports teams.
Three days of mourning
Guillena City Hall declared three days of official mourning and the mayor, on behalf of the entire municipal corporation and the more than 12,000 residents of the municipality, expressed his pain “at the death of the Rendón Hidalgo family.”
“Any unexpected death is dramatic, but this time all the more so since it concerns young people and because of the circumstances of the event,” indicates the mayor in the decree.
