Two people have died in a flat fire in San Bartolomé de Tirajana on Gran Canaria. A 45-year-old man suffered moderate smoke inhalation and was taken to hospital.
The 112 emergency call centre received several calls at around 1.35 am on Friday. The callers reported flames in a flat on Avenida de Gáldar. The San Bartolomé de Tirajana fire brigade extinguished the fire and ventilated the building. The emergency services dispatched one emergency doctor’s vehicle and two ambulances. The emergency services could only confirm the deaths of two people. An ambulance took the 45-year-old man to the Hospitales Universitarios San Roque Maspalomas.
The local police and the Policía Nacional secured the scene and launched an investigation. The 112 emergency call centre incident report does not contain any information on the cause of the fire. This was not the first fire to claim lives on Gran Canaria this year.
Gran Canaria: Six fire-related deaths since the start of the year
According to reports from the 112 emergency call centre, there have been six fire-related deaths on Gran Canaria since January, including the two victims from San Bartolomé de Tirajana. During the same period last year, the island’s emergency call centre did not report a single fire-related death. However, not every fatality is recorded in these reports.
The 112 emergency call centre reported the first incident of the year on 8 January in Arucas. As is now the case in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, two people died there. Further fires resulting in fatalities followed on 21 July in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and on 6 September during the fatal fire in Telde.
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