Overview
- The blaze began around 8:10 p.m. in a sixth-floor attic on Calle Las Palmas in Murcia’s San Antón neighborhood.
- Emergency services received dozens of calls to the 1-1-2 line as smoke and flames were reported from the top-floor flat.
- Firefighters, local police and multiple ambulances responded, and the six-storey building was evacuated within minutes.
- Several residents were treated for anxiety at the scene, and no hospital transfers were required for those cases.
- Initial reports of two people seriously injured were corrected to one, the 102-year-old man who later died.