A fire declared in the early hours of this Friday in the nursing home The Villafranca Gardens, in Villafranca de Ebro (Zaragoza), are currently installed with 10 residents dead and one in critical conditionas confirmed by the Civil Guard to LaSexta. As indicated by the Zaragoza town hall, two injured were transferred to hospitals.
The accident occurred around 5:00 a.m. and at that time there were 82 people inside from the center. At the moment the the fire is now under controlas this channel learned.
After receiving the notice from 112 at 4:57 a.m.the Zaragoza firefighters went to the retirement home. 25 soldiers, three tanks, a ladder truck, an ambulance, a forward health post and a command vehicle were deployed there. Later a bus, a heavy mother pump and a tool van were also added.
When firefighters arrived on scene, they noticed a fire developing in a wing of the building which caused a fire. large amount of smokepractically saturating the entire room. The troops proceeded to smoke extraction and extraction in the region and evacuation of the elderly from the entire residence to the Advanced Health Post.
They continue to perform on site Firefighters from the Town Hall, the Civil Guard, Civil Protection Volunteers, psychologists, social workers and health resources from 061, as well as medical staff from the Alfajarín and Fuentes de Ebro health centers. pre-alert to hospitals Royo Villanova, Miguel Servet and academic clinician. They are also moving to the area Minister of the InteriorRoberto Bermúdez de Castro, and the director of the Aragonese Institute of Social Services (IASS), Ángel Val.
Nine years ago, another deadly fire occurred in a retirement home, also near Zaragoza: it was in 2015 in Cuarte de Huerva and then nine people died.
