The small town of Guillena, in Seville, is in shock on the occasion of the second of three days of mourning decreed after all the a family burned alive this weekend at his house. The father, mother and their two children, aged 21 and 16, were unable to escape a fire in the house which apparently spread quickly.
The first hypotheses on the causes of the fire, according to investigative sources cited by Diario de Sevilla, indicate to an electric scooter which was recharging on the ground floor of the house. An aspect that has not yet been confirmed and which will have to be clarified with the visual technical inspection of the house which will be carried out by specialists from the Civil Guard.
Furthermore, the The mayor of Guillena, Lorenzo Medida, pointed out another factor that could have complicated the family’s departure. “The house has bars like most houses in our town and no doubt they couldn’t get out. “They were on the second floor,” he told Las Provincias. Reports were that the family had attempted to go out onto the terrace to access the stairs that would have taken them to the roof.
emergency services They started receiving calls from neighbors at 8:05 a.m.warning that several people were trapped inside a semi-detached house located on Fernando Martín Street, where a fire had broken out. “In just 17 minutes,” as the mayor explained, three teams of firefighters from the neighboring municipalities of Ronquillo and Santiponce arrived. The 061 health services as well as the Civil Guard and local police were also activated.
However, the how quickly the fire and black smoke spread The two-story house prevented the family from escaping with their lives. The bodies of the four members of the family were found together in the rear part of the house, as if they had tried to go out onto the terrace to, from there, access the stairs that would have led them to the roof, as explained by the mayor. The house was “completely burned down”.
The family, originally from Guillena, was known and loved in the city, he said. The couple worked in Mercasevilla, in the fruit tradeand the children studied in the city and were part of the municipality’s sports teams.
This is the second most serious fire recorded in Spanish homes in 2024, after the one which claimed the lives of ten people and left a dozen injured in a 14-storey building in the Valencian district of Campanar on February 22.
It is also one of the three deadliest house fires recorded in the province of Seville in the last 20 years. The worst occurred on April 20, 2008 in Écija and caused the death of six people: a couple, their three children and the boyfriend of one of the girls. In November 2014, four other people – an 11-year-old boy, an 18-year-old boy and their grandparents – died from smoke inhalation after a house fire in Arahal.
