Effective Fire Station City of Cartagena quelled yesterday afternoon, around 19.30 hours, the fire in the parish hall Albujón, when members of the Association Belenista town came to mounting the monumental birth install all years.
Apparently the fire was started by an allo f one of the resistors used to cut pieces of FCL, the structures are molded birth.
Arriving firefighters had a lot of smoke and heat, but no fire, so it was necessary to use an infrared camera to locate the focus on extinction using water spray.
The performance lasted an hour and a half, firefighters also used to clear smoke inside the room.
Only injuries were reported in the structure of the Nativity, which is unusable in the blinds and windows in the room that exploded from the heat and ceiling plaster, which is completely detached.
The fire did not reach the church and the adjoining warehouse where the thrones of the saints are saved because they were separated from the lounge by fire doors.
Nor were damaged nativity figures, which had not been placed yet.
Sources Belenista Association regretted the incident, which will prevent that for the first time in twenty years, Albujón count their popular Christmas crib.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena