Hours after leaving the place of, the Firefighters had to return, already at night, to continue taking out rubble by hand under an “unstable” three -storey brick building in search of a missing assumption. They had already counted 25 wounded, five of them serious, and concluded that the strong deflagration that took the entire neighborhood of San Diego to the street at 3 pm on Saturday, had mainly affected a place recently enabled as housing and “inhabited”, according to the neighbors. Also to the surrounding portal who was linked by an inner door, and the wall of the next bar, the Peruvian “my treasures.” “It is ruled out that there are missing,” was heard from the radiofrequency of their vehicles at 7:00 p.m. However, the insistent call of a relative made the Vallecas police suspect that someone could be there under the rubble. Already at dawn, firefighters, helped by the canine unit of the National Police, rescued from the basement, under a large number of sand and rubble, the body of a 52 -year -old man whom his relatives failed to find.
The Vicealcaldesa of Madrid herself had appeared around 7.30 pm in the place of the events: “In these moments, it seems that it is ruled out that there could be no person trapped. A good part has been described and the dogs of firefighters have been working in the area.” Sanz also alluded to the affected homes, which quantified in nine, despite the fact that the neighbors explained to the police that there were 11 homes of the property, counting the bass premises that was most affected and another raised in the inner courtyard of the building.
Throughout the afternoon, the evicted neighbors of the building, were facilitating their names to the social samur and the Municipal Police to be realized, since the structure and forge of the building had been sufficiently affected so that it could not be worked with the machines in the tasks of Desesocombro and there was talk of “at least one section of between 50-60 square meters” affected in the property.
The deflagration, produced by a concentration of gases, as explained by the spokesman for the Firefighters, and whose exact origin is yet to be determined, mainly affected that place in the basements of the property that, according to the neighbors, had been renovated and turned into housing half a year ago and that occupied a couple. The gate of the premises that took the street always remained closed, since they had opened an internal alternative door on the same portal of the building, through which all the neighbors entered and left. The explosion caused the fence and even the interior sofas to go out to the outside with the bad fortune that they stamped with a car that passed just at that time at that height of the street, hurting their occupants, according to face -to -face witnesses. The damage to that vehicle, displaced by the expansive wave to the other side of the street, were visible.
At 15.00 the bar “My Treasures”, run by a Peruvian family, “was full of people,” said some witnesses. The deflagration, affected both the portal and the adjoining wall of the bar, also attached by an internal door to it. Up to 18 firefighters spent more than five hours removing debris from the entire affected area on Saturday afternoon, but did not reach the body of the deceased, which was confirmed by the emergency services of the City Council under a meter of debris and sand.
