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The Local Police of Cartagena processed on the occasion of the celebration of the traditional Night of San Juan 19 reports to punish conduct of young people for disturbing public order under the Law of Protection of Citizen Security and seized more than 30 kilos of dangerous pyrotechnic material .

According to local police sources, the night was quiet until midnight, when groups of young people started throwing all kinds of devices against homes and vehicles in La Vaguada.

The policemen had to intervene on several occasions to dissolve them, while the young people threw stones and wheelbarrows, resulting in one of the officers being slightly injured when a stone hit him.

There were also incidents in the Polígono de Santa Ana, where another group of young people gathered behind the sports courts.

The continuous action of residential security personnel minimized the danger, which had to endure the bad forms of some parents when they warned of the vandalism of their children.

It also had to go to the Barriada Virgen de la Caridad (Las 600) where from the terraces of the buildings of social housing were dedicated to throw fireworks to the hotel located in the vicinity.

47 FIRE FIGHTER INTERVENTIONS

For their part, the Firemen of the Fire and Rescue Extinction Service of the City of Cartagena (SEIS) attended a total of 47 incidents between six in the afternoon and seven this morning.

Most of them due to tree and brush fires as a consequence of the launching of pyrotechnic elements or the lighting of bonfires.

The withdrawal of the public road prior to about 260 containers of garbage made that minimized the actions in this regard, accounting for a total of 14 fires in containers in various areas such as Cartagena city, Santa Lucia, La Vaguada, Barriada Virgen de Charity or Flat Island.

To this must be added the fire of two vehicles: at midnight, in the Prolongation of Angel Bruna and this morning, at seven, in New Cartagena.

Two fires were also attended in simultaneous homes yesterday afternoon: one on the street Prince of Asturias, in the burning of the awning of the patio of lights of a first floor and had to be served by smoke inhalation three people;

and another on Andújar street in San Antón.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena