In just 45 minutes, firefighters managed to quell a fire early this morning to the 1.30 recorded in the basement of a building of the Human Rights Square in the neighborhood Virgen de la Caridad, counting with the intervention of four eleven vehicles and the fire service.
Although the notice was talk of a fire in a home with possible persons trapped, troops posted there, they found that the fire did not involve difficulty and was controlled from the outset, but the nervousness was contagious among the neighbors, prompting cries , screams and scenes of panic as they left their homes, calming down as the night wore on, until the situation returned to normal.
Finally, the fire affected only a few rooms in a ground floor apartment, but the smoke did not reach any more.
Once extinguished completely and inspected and ventilated the entire building, the staff of the Fire Department returned to base.
For their part, the emergency medical services attended a 57 year old man, intoxicated by smoke inhalation was taken to hospital Rosell, while three others were treated on the spot by anxiety attacks and did not require transportation to hospital .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena