Overview

• The firing began around 1:30 a.m. on August 31 along 150 meters of Calle Mayor, with 353 accredited participants working from 129 wooden boxes of rockets.
• The municipality reports 25 injured participants, including 24 with minor injuries and one serious case from eye burns who has been discharged home.
• Organizers deployed reinforced protocols that included police‑guarded storage, protected street enclosures, participant accreditation with CRE, blue emergency flares for stop signals and anti‑fog lighting.
• The role of the tirador pasivo, now in its second year, provided experienced oversight to larger groups per box alongside designated safety tiradores and the Consell Sectorial teams.
• This edition featured roughly 70,000 rockets—about one tonne of gunpowder—fired in just under 22 minutes during a notably warm night near 29.5°C, and saw a record female presence with about 103 women, roughly 30% of participants.