Overview
- Emergency services received the alert at about 1:35 a.m. after flames broke out at the couple’s home on Calle Garlin in Ayerbe (Huesca).
- Firefighters extinguished the fire before dawn and reported no need to evacuate other residents.
- Aylagas’s wife, 76, was taken to Hospital San Jorge for smoke inhalation and remains in intensive care.
- Authorities confirmed the ignition point as the apartment’s chimney after initially intense flames complicated the response.
- Mayor Antonio Biescas visited the scene, ordered municipal mourning with flags at half-mast and a 8 p.m. minute of silence, and said an institutional tribute will be held with the funeral date to be determined.