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Benidorm decrees three days of official mourning for the victims of the Valencia fire

 

• The City Council observes three minutes of silence in solidarity with those affected by the tragedy and offers its institutional collaboration in these difficult moments

 

Benidorm City Council has declared three days of official mourning for the victims of this Thursday's devastating fire in Valencia, which has left at least four people dead, fifteen injured and more than a dozen people still missing. Likewise, the City Council has placed its official flags at half-mast as a sign of mourning, thus joining the three days of official mourning also decreed by the Generalitat Valenciana. 

 

At noon, the Municipal Corporation, headed by Mayor Toni Pérez, observed three minutes of silence as a sign of remembrance and solidarity with all those affected by this incident, in a rally that took place in the Plaza de SS MM Los Reyes de Spain and to which numerous neighbors have also joined.

 

As is already known, the fire started around 5:30 p.m. yesterday for reasons that are being investigated in a building located at the intersection of Maestro Rodrigo and General Avilés streets, in the Valencian neighborhood of Campanar. The flames quickly spread throughout the property and an adjacent building, with a total of 138 homes and where more than 400 people lived, which have been completely burned. Firefighters spent the entire afternoon trying to put out the fire and cooling the area, as well as rescuing some of the people who had been trapped. The provisional balance speaks of four dead and 14 missing, in addition to another 15 people injured of varying severity. 

 

In the face of this tragedy, which represents the worst fire that the capital of Turia has experienced in its recent history, the mayor of Benidorm has publicly joined, on behalf of the city, in the expressions of “pain for this terrible fire that has destroyed the life of many families.” Toni Pérez has also conveyed “our condolences to family and friends of the victims” and, as the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP) has also done, has offered to “collaborate with the Valencia City Council in everything it needs in these hard moments.” 

 

Finally, the first mayor thanked and valued “the enormous work being done by the firefighters and all the professionals and volunteers of health and emergency services to collaborate and help the victims, families and injured in this terrible event.”