Overview
- Firefighters found a man dead after a blaze erupted around 9:30 a.m. in a first-floor flat on Calle Joan Fuster in Valencia’s Tres Forques neighborhood.
- Nineteen people were treated for smoke inhalation, with twelve discharged at the scene and seven transferred to La Fe and General hospitals, including several minors.
- Roughly 23 residents were evacuated as National and Local Police, firefighters, SAMU and SVB units responded, secured the building and ventilated the area.
- Policía Científica is leading the inquiry into the cause, and officials cited a stove as a working hypothesis pending forensic confirmation.
- Separate incidents left a woman dead in Vila-real on Friday and a 75-year-old man dead in Santovenia de Pisuerga on Saturday, the latter linked by the mayor to a diesel-fired boiler.