Ten residents deceased and one in critical condition is the first balance of a fire declared this morning in the Jardines de Villafranca senior residence, in Villafranca de Ebro (Zaragoza). As reported by the Government of Aragon, the fire was declared at 5:00 a.m.
In it place There are firefighters from the Zaragoza City Council, the Civil Guard, Civil Protection volunteers, psychologists, social workers and health personnel from 061, as well as medical personnel from the Alfajarín and Fuentes de Ebro health centers. Likewise, the hospitals have been alerted Royo Villanova, Miguel Servet and University Clinician.
The two workers who remained in the center this morning were the first to intervene, to call 112 and to begin taking residents out of the building, according to the mayor, who also said that the rest have immediately arrived at the scene. of workers to collaborate, even those who had a party this Friday. He explained that, apparently, The fire broke out in one of the rooms of the center and generated a large amount of smokesomething that the Minister of the Interior of Aragon, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro, has agreed to point out, who, having traveled to the place, has explained to the media that the survivors will be transferred to the Vitalia residence in Huesca, still unused and unoccupied.
The Jardines de Villafranca psychogeriatric residence, according to its website, is a center specialized in dementia and mental health. The Government of Aragon has specified that the center has capacity for 72 people and at this time 70 places were occupied, although one of the residents was admitted to the hospital, so when the fire broke out there were 69 people housed.
And cigarette could be the origin of the fire, according to the manager of the Arade association, which manages the residence, Paquita Morata. This was indicated in statements to the media at the doors of the center accompanied by the director, Carmen Torrijo, in which she expressed her condolences to the families and relatives of those who died in the face of “a terrible misfortune.” He has indicated that the Civil Guard is investigating the causes of the fire, but has pointed out that it probably occurred when someone smoked in a room, something that is prohibited.
The fire that occurred this morning is the most tragic recorded in senior centers so far this century in Spain.
Also in Zaragoza, another fire broke out on July 12, 2015 at the Santa Fe private residence, in Cuarte de Huerva6 kilometers from the Aragonese capital, caused the death of nine elderly people and injured nine other inmates. In July 2017, the Zaragoza Court sentenced the woman who provoked him to 61 years in prison to express her discomfort at being admitted to the residence.
On January 19, 2022, nine other elderly people died and four were injured in the fire at a nursing home in Moncada (Valencia)due to a short circuit in a power strip. Five of the elderly died on the same day, while the other four deaths occurred in the following days.
In a fire at a residence in Sevilladeclared on February 9, 2010, seven residents died and ten were injured in a fire that started shortly before midnight in a nursing home located at number 98 Marqués de Nervión Street. An electrical failure without human negligence was the cause of the accident.
In 2006, on March 28, five people – four men between 30 and 80 years old, and a woman aged 50 -, all of them sick, died in the fire that broke out in the nursing home in San Lorenzo de Brindis de Massamagrell (Valencia). A short circuit was also the cause of the fire in the center, which housed the elderly and mentally ill.
To date, the most serious event recorded this year in a nursing home in Spain was recorded on February 18, when three women died due to fire in the Juan XXIII dependent residence in the Madrid district of Aravaca.
Source: www.vozpopuli.com
