12 injured, one serious in a fire in a building in Cartagena

8 people have been transferred minor injuries by smoke inhalation to hospital centers. Another seriously injured person has been transferred to the Hospital of Santa Lucía


The Emergency Coordination Center 1-1-2 Murcia has received several calls as of 08: 34h. warning of the fire of a house in a building in the Ronda Ferrol, in the Casas del Sindicato neighborhood of the municipality of Cartagena.

The callers report having heard an explosion, smoke and then tongue of fire. The fire has occurred on a second floor. The building has eight floors and has natural gas service.

They report people trapped inside the building who can not leave because of the amount of black smoke in the stairwell area.

Cartagena local police, ambulances, national police are pestered at the scene of the incident.

The Medical Coordinator of the 061 has sent eight ambulances from the Emergency Management and Sanitary Emergencies 061, two Mobile Emergency Units, four arranged ambulances and two Ambulances from the Emergency Service.

Sanitaries report that they are left without oxygen masks, which is why they are requested from the hospitals of Rosell and Santa Lucia.

Firemen of the Fire and Rescue Extinction Service of the City of Cartagena sends 6 extinguishing vehicles.

The Ambulance of the Emergency Service of Los Dolores transferred to the Virgen del Rosell Hospital two policemen with minor injuries from smoke inhalation.

At half past nine, UME health workers report that the situation is under control.

The agreed ambulances transport a total of 8 people slightly injured to the hospitals of El Rosell and Santa Lucia, all by smoke inhalation.

The ambulance of the Emergency Service of Cartagena moves a person in serious condition to the Santa Lucía Hospital.

So far there are 12 injured 1 serious.

The ages of the people transferred by the arranged ambulances are a 4-year-old boy, three males of 50, 58 and 47, two women of 38 and 20, and the data of two of the persons transferred is unknown.