The 18 troops of the Provincial Firefighters Consortium of the Alicante Provincial Council have faced temperatures between 400 and 500 degrees in the tragic fire in a building in the Alicante town of Villajoyosawhich has been charged three fatalities.
Thus, sources close to the extinguishing teams confirmed this to OKDIARIO this Tuesday. The task has been extended for 5 hours and a half: from 2:20 to 7:39 a.m., which gives an idea of the virulence of the fire that the extinguishing teams have had to fight against.
Specifically, the emergency was notified to the firefighters at 2 hours and 17 minutes. They left at 2 hours and 20 minutes and They started the intervention at 2 hours and 28 minutes.
The rapid intervention of the firefighters of the Local Police and the Civil Guard It has prevented the tragedy from being greater. This is the story that the firefighters themselves give of their intervention, told by César Alcaraz, official and spokesperson for the aforementioned Consortium. It was the firefighters themselves who rescued the bodies of the deceased.
Temperatures of 500 degrees: this has been the battle of firefighters against the fire
The fire broke out at 2:15 a.m. in what is known as Avenida dels Mariners (Mariners Avenue). At number 1. The building has 24 floors: “It originates on the 11th floor,” says the spokesperson: “Three people who we rescued from inside are dead».
The spokesman for the Provincial Consortium firefighters says that the firefighters “we evacuate 100 people or something more” of that number. Besides, “We confine as many people, depending on their disposition in the building».
According to the spokesperson for the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, there are 15 people who have been treated «on site» by the health services, “of which fourteen were admitted to the Marina Baja hospital, at least at the time of the fire”, in reference to the Valencian public health hospital in that region, located in Villajoyosa, as well.
The fire, explains the fire brigade spokesperson, “we controlled it at approximately 3:30 a.m. And we ended the intervention at approximately 7:39. That is to say, the firefighters fought against this enormous fire for space of five hours and a halfwhich gives an idea of the intensity of the fire.
They used resources from two parks: one, Benidorm. The other, that of San Vicente del Raspeig. The latter is next to the University of Alicante, in the municipality of San Vicente. It has direct access to the highway that connects, precisely, San Vicente with Benidorm. Each one of them belongs to a different operational area. The one from Benidorm, to the Marina Baja. That of San Vicente, known as the region of Alicantewith capital in Alicante.
A command and leadership unit (UMJ) left Benidorm as soon as the fire occurred, with a sergeant and two Heavy Urban Bombers (BUP), these trucks each carrying plenty of water to proceed with the extinguishing work, and a ladder car. (AEA). The latter, a vehicle that is used to rescue people from high-rise buildings.
Given the intensity of the fire, the San Vicente park contributed another Heavy Urban Bomb (BUP). In absolute numbers, a total of 18 troops, with a sergeant, two corporals and 15 firefighters.