Overview
- Emergency services were alerted around 1:40 a.m. to a fire in a flat on Avenida Profesor López Piero in València.
- Firefighters forced entry, extinguished the blaze and found the 79-year-old resident deceased inside the dwelling.
- National and local police evacuated neighbors and kept a young woman on a balcony safe with water and wet towels until she was rescued.
- Nine people were treated for smoke inhalation, including six police officers discharged on site; three civilians were taken to Hospital Doctor Peset, Hospital Clínico and Hospital General.
- The victim’s body was transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine for autopsy as authorities examine reports that the fire started in a bedroom on a high floor.