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Seven people, including a baby, rescued in Águilas house fire
The devastating blaze started in a first floor flat in the municipality of Águilas
What could have been an unspeakable tragedy has been narrowly avoided thanks to the rapid work of firefighters and police officers after a fire tore through an apartment block in Águilas.
Seven people were rescued in the early hours of Friday morning (August 30) by officers from the Guardia Civil and miraculously, everyone escaped unharmed.
At 2.30am, the Operational Service Centre of the Guardia Civil in Murcia received a call about a possible fire in a building in the municipality of Águilas. Immediately, a patrol was sent to the scene and the officer was dismayed to see smoke billowing out from under the door of a first-floor flat.
After phoning the home "repeatedly" and getting no answer, and seeing that the heat and smoke were increasing considerably, one Guardia Civil agent entered the house through the thick smoke and went through all the rooms until they confirmed that there was no one inside.
A Local Police officer from Águilas had arrived by this time and both agents returned to the smoke-filled building to evacuate the second floor. The men said they could hardly see through the dense black smog and had to climb up the stairs “practically on all fours” to reach the upper landing.
In one of the upstairs apartments they found a couple and their 2-month-old baby. The infant was covered with blankets to prevent him from inhaling the smoke, and all three were escorted safety to the street.
The total number of people evacuated was seven: the first was in a ground floor flat adjacent to the burning apartment, followed by the couple and their baby, and three other people from the second floor.
Within a few minutes, two fire brigades from the Águilas fire station arrived at the scene, extinguishing the fire, in a gruelling job that lasted until four in the morning.
All of the rescued residents and three officers were treated by paramedics at the scene by nobody required hospitalisation.
Image: Guardia Civil
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