Two people have been seriously injured by multiple injuries when they throw themselves from a window of a second floor in a building on Gómez Acebo Street, in the Madrid district of Villaverde, where a fire has started tonight. The fire has been unleashed around 22.00 hours this Sunday on the second floor of a building with three floors and three houses located at number 7 Gómez Acebo de Villaverde.
At the time of the fire, the families occupied the houses on the first and second floors, while the tenants on the third floor had left their homes.
Flames came out of the windows of the house
To the place of the fire have been transferred 5 endowments of the Firemen of the City of Madrid, who upon arrival have found the fire very widespread and virulent and have spent 90 minutes in quenching the flames that issued through all the windows of the second floor, breaking down the facade until reaching the third floor.
In the house on the second floor, where the fire started, there were three people at the time of the accident: a woman who left by her own feet and managed to go down the stairs to the street and two other tenants – a man from 48 years and a woman of 38- who have thrown themselves out of a window trying to escape from the flames.
Effective of the Samur-Civil Protection moved to the place they have installed two positions advanced sanitary in the street to take care of the two wounded, that have suffered polytraumatisms of serious character as a result of the fall.
Two seriously injured
The man has several injuries and second degree burns in approximately 40 percent of his body, especially in the trunk – thorax and back – and has been intubated and transferred very seriously to the Hospital of La Paz.
On the other hand, the woman suffers a spinal cord injury and, according to the Samur doctors, could present a possible vertebral fracture, reason why she has been transferred seriously to the hospital on October 12.
A psychologist of the Samur has assisted in the place of the fire to the woman who has managed to leave unharmed of the burned house and to the family of the first floor – a marriage and her daughter of 3 years – that have not been affected and that in all the cases They have required psychological assistance.
For its part, the National Police has taken over the investigation to try to find out the origin of the fire and has sealed the house where it was unleashed, while the street has been open to traffic in the early hours of Monday morning. .