Overview
- Firefighters found a 77-year-old man dead after a flat burned on the fifth floor of a six-storey building on Calle Uva in L'Hospitalet at 21:55 on January 6.
- Hours later, a separate blaze on Calle Horts in Constantí killed a 54-year-old man after a fourth-floor flat burned and flames spread along the facade.
- Rescue teams used ladder trucks to extract residents in Constantí and evacuated others in L'Hospitalet as neighbors either sheltered in place or were guided outside.
- Medical teams treated eight people in L'Hospitalet, with one transferred in mild condition to Hospital Bellvitge, and four in Constantí, with two taken to Hospital Joan XXIII.
- Municipal architects completed safety assessments, most residents returned to their homes, seven people from L'Hospitalet spent the night at the Els Alps emergency center, and Mossos d'Esquadra opened cause inquiries at both sites.