The mayor of Villafranca de Ebro, Volga Ramírez, was one of the first to arrive this morning at the residence where the fire broke out. In fact, it was she, her husband and the two night shift workers at the center who helped evict the residents.
Ramírez said in the program ‘La Rebotica’ of ‘Radio Zaragoza’ which She started taking people with her husband: “We did what can be done humanly, and because you know them, they are people we know. We eliminated everyone who was alive “Before the firefighters arrived, only the deceased were left inside.”
THE The firefighters from Zaragoza City Hall and the Civil Guard arrived very quickly, but when they did, “almost everyone was already outside.”Ten people died and two others were seriously injured in the early hours of this Friday in the fire at the Jardines de Villafranca retirement home, located in the town of Villafranca de Ebro in Zaragoza, according to Aragon government sources.
After receiving the notice from 112 to 4:57 a.m. fire warning At the Jardines de Villafranca retirement home, the Zaragoza firefighters went to the scene and, after extinguishing the fire, found ten people dead and two others injured, one seriously and the other in critical condition , who were transferred to Royo Villanova Hospital. .
Upon arriving at the residence, where There were 82 people at the time of the fire, Firefighters noticed a fire developing in a wing of the building which generated a large quantity of smoke, saturating almost the entire premises. After that, they proceeded to extinguish the smoke, extract the smoke and evacuate the elderly from all the premises to the Advanced Health Post, where several minor poisonings were treated “in situ”. “.
Troops deployed to extinguish fire and treat victims There were 25 firefighters, three water tanks and a ladder, as well as an ambulance, an advanced medical station and a command vehicle. Later, a bus, a heavy mother pump and a supply van were added, as reported by the Zaragoza Fire Department.
Firefighters from Zaragoza City Hall, health personnel from 061, the Civil Guard, as well as Civil Protection volunteers, psychologists and social workers continue to intervene. There are also medical staff from the Alfajarín and Fuentes de Ebro health centers.
