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Fires Trigger Hotel Evacuation in Coma-ruga as Separate Lleida Blaze Injures 18

Emergency crews contained three Catalonia blazes overnight, with medical teams treating smoke exposure; no life‑threatening cases reported.

Overview

  • Bombers de la Generalitat evacuated 233 people from a Coma-ruga hotel after a vehicle ignited in the underground parking, sending smoke up the stairwell to the first and second floors.
  • The parking fire was declared out at 04:28 and, after ventilation and inspections, guests returned around 06:00; the incident caused a water leak and damaged part of the hotel’s electrical wiring.
  • SEM treated 16 people for mild smoke inhalation at the hotel, discharging 15 at the scene and transferring one to Hospital del Vendrell.
  • Three minutes after the hotel alert, six fire crews extinguished a separate blaze that destroyed an unoccupied bungalow at Camping Vendrell Platja, with no injuries reported.
  • In Lleida’s Cappont neighborhood, a 08:59 apartment fire burned a third‑floor flat and a fourth‑floor terrace; nine fire units evacuated some residents by facade, the fire was out after 11:00, and SEM attended 18 people—15 mild and 3 less serious.