About four less on Wednesday afternoon, Fredy Guzman and Eric Estrada were working on a work (Madrid), when they have heard a terrible rumble. The workers have quickly attended the entrance of a garage into Lilos Street, where they have found a man leaving a car after having an accident. Guzman and Estrada have helped the man and a woman and have left behind a dense black smoke that invaded all space and vehicle, a Porsche Taycan green, starry.
In a matter of minutes, they have arrived at the site of the incident but, when they were inside the garage, and two of them have been trapped and died. They were two young firefighters and their loss has left all their devastated companions. They were called Sergio B. and Jesús A., while another has been a firefighter has been transferred in a critical condition to the Getafe hospital.
According to the first hypotheses, the injured neighbor has confused the pedals of the electric vehicle and has accelerated and has crashed into one of the doors and a underground column. The man has been able to go by his own foot, helped by Guzmán and Estrada, although “he walked a little disoriented,” the workers explained. He has been the one who has given the emergencies, a call to which other residents have followed, alerted by smoke and noise.
It is possible that, when firefighters were inside, there have been more explosions and have not had escape. The companions have managed to get one of the firefighters, who has died while trying to revive him on the sidewalk, but the other has been inside the garage for more than an hour. The National Police has taken charge of the investigation. The agents have taken hours to access the underground for the gases and the temperature that the space has reached.
In addition to the two deceased and the critical wounded, Summa 112 has served another 14 people for smoke inhalation, although they have been registered in the place. The firefighters of the Community of Madrid have had to go to the place in support of their colleagues from Alcorcón.
Begoña, a neighbor of the 57 -year -old garage block, was in the kitchen, who has her orientation to the street where the events have happened. His daughter, who was resting in the room because she worked on the night shift, has been able to listen to the first explosion, which has violently shaken the building. “In a few minutes the urbanization became a black cloud,” says Begoña. “Then we have continued listening to a few more explosions,” he says. Face -to -face witnesses point out that another car, a Porsche Panamera, has also burned.
The woman explains that the block, of about 150 homes, has two independent garages. The fire has taken place in the last one that was built. Immediately, some neighbors have tried to go down to the subsoil to save their private vehicles. A recklessness that has been cut by the first firefighters who have come to the place. Several police officers have gone floor for a flat to warn that the entrance and exit of the houses is “totally prohibited.”
Adrián Rebollo, another neighbor of the area, has heard the sirens and has seen the black and dense smoke that has flooded the street in seconds. “It has taken at least two hours to get clear. That must be a mousetrap,” he explained. A neighbor of the 63 -year -old neighborhood, who has witnessed the event from the opposite block, still shows the videos he has been able to record.
The man prefers to maintain his anonymity. “Look! It was a dense and black smoke that didn’t stop growing,” he describes. According to his testimony, what has warned him at the beginning has been the intense smell. “The first thing I thought was that some fuel was burning, a very characteristic smell, a rubber already burned. It was horrible. Something serious was happening. I couldn’t see the building in front. I immediately closed everything for what could happen,” he recalls.
Since his window, he has observed several endowments as the smoke progressed. “In groups of six firefighters entered and left inside the building,” he adds. It has been then when, from one of the trucks, they have put a steel cable to the garage. “Thus they took three people dragged. In two escorted ambulances they have taken them all,” concludes the neighbor, lawyer by profession.
This tragedy not only leaves inhalation and burns injured, but also has meant a tremendous sake for the entire Alcorcón Fire Department. At the doors of the garage, the victims’ companions hug, cry and deny their heads, still dressed in their monkeys, before brown and now blackened. Summa has lent psychological support to several of them at the scene, some of them inconsolable. One relies on a car sobbing, another sits on the stairs of the Cabizbajo Fire Truck, another pulls his helmet to the ground with rage.
