One day after the fire that alarmed an area of the Eixample, the time has come to assess the serious damage to the building located on Carrer de València, 73 as a result of an explosion in a bar located on the ground floor. The house now enters a considerable rehabilitation phase for having affected the event to significant structural issues. “An affected load-bearing wall has been propped up as a preliminary step to a more complete study of the building’s rehabilitation tasks,” explained Víctor Molinet, head of the Barcelona Fire Department unit this morning. This circumstance that mainly affects the floors located in the second gates, las they are above the Champi bar, has led to the evaluation that the affected neighbors may take months to return to their residences.
All the tenants of Carrer de València cannot yet return to their homes, and have stayed at the homes of relatives and friends, after having been able to enter today to collect his belongings after permission from the fire department. Those of the main 2nd, the floor above the bar, have not been able to do it, since the explosion completely affected the slab and the floor. The explosion first caused a huge hole next to the door of that house. Two of the residents of Valencia, 73, a mother and a daughter, have spent the night in the center of urgencies and social emergencies of the city council, as explained by Albert Batlle, deputy mayor for Security, in an appearance before the media.
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The situation caused by the fire also involves two houses on Avenida de Roma, 90, where the effects of the fire reached through the adjacent patio of both buildings Their owners have not been able to sleep in their houses either because they have been affected by habitability issues, not in terms of problems, as is the case in the Valencia building. It is to be hoped, therefore, that in the next few hours they will be able to return to their homes.
Batlle has also explained that only the owner of the bar remains hospitalized, who is still in police custody, and from whom the Mossos have not yet taken a statement. His state of health is not in danger, as pointed out by the councilor, who has reiterated that the Guardia Urbana went to the bar on April 1 in response to complaints from neighbors. “In that inspection, no safety problems were detected, but unhealthy problems were detected in the case of a bar.” The fire chief, for his part, explained that the investigation to determine the causes of the accident, in charge of the scientific police of the Mossos, is “very complex” so it is not possible to expect results in the next few hours.