Overview

• Flames broke out around 6 a.m. in a ground-floor unit on Calle Castilla la Mancha next to the Hotel Villaluz, forcing the evacuation of the building.
• The fire spread vertically to the fourth floor within minutes, destroying balconies and causing significant damage before crews gained control.
• Emergency Coordination Center 112-CV mobilized six Provincial Fire Consortium crews and three ambulances to the scene.
• Fourteen people received medical attention for burns and smoke inhalation, including an elderly woman taken to hospital by SAMU, her grandson, a family with a baby, and a mother with her daughter.
• Firefighters had extinguished the blaze by about 8:30 a.m. and were ventilating the structure, with the cause not reported.