The building at number 35 on Calle General Pardiñas, in Madrid, has been “very damaged” behind the explosion happened on friday which caused the death of two workers, with “unstable areas” that could still collapse, according to the evaluation of the Madrid Fire Department and the municipal technical services, after entering the area this Saturday.
After a night of surveillance by the fire department, whose work ended at two in the morning, after shoring up the damaged building and consolidating the holes in the façade, the troops spent the morning checking the adjoining houses –number 33 of Ayala street and 78 of General Pardiñasin collaboration with operations of the Judicial Police and the Building Protection Service, which has been in charge of the works.
As a whole, the building where the deflagration originated remains stable, reported the supervisor of the Madrid Fire Department, Antony Marchesewhich has also indicated that the construction company will re-solidify the building to make it a safe space.
It will be after that action when the future of the property is determined, he detailed.
The damage in the adjoining farms has been minor, with broken windows and “a lot of debris projection & rdquor; but also stable, beyond some walls that have suffered cracks. In this case, “the problem is not the house, but the damage to the party walls & rdquor;Marchese said, so a partial collapse cannot yet be ruled out.
The Building Protection technicians will make the decision, “throughout the week”, of when the neighbors can return, he has specified, although he has advanced that, for the moment, no inhabitant of the three buildings will return home in the coming days to avoid any type of additional mishap.
After the outbreak, a total of 96 people have been evicted from their homes as a precautionary measure, although only six have needed alternative housing, the head of the Samur-Social unit has asserted, Juan Carlos Arellano.
He has also said that his team attended “all kinds of needs” of the neighbors, such as the disposition of medication, the delivery of the pets that remained in the houses to their owners or the specific attention to the elderly.
The residents of the two farms that flank the building that suffered the explosion have been able to collect some personal items this morning, always accompanied by operatives from the Fire Department to guarantee their safety.
Among those who have been able to recover some belongings was the PP senator Rafael Hernando, who has accompanied his sister, a resident of one of the two properties evicted as a precaution, to help him collect personal belongings.
“As far as it goes, housing is not too affected. The living room area is affected, with the shattered windows, the doors, but if we compare it with the terrible misfortune of the neighbors of 35, within what is possible we have had some fortune & rdquor ;, Hernando has told the press.
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To Julian, the explosion caught him eating in the dining room of his house. “It was a noise that you can not imagine in life, as if it were a big explosion, and suddenly everything was full of dust, in less than a second, and see how the debris fell through the window & rdquor ;, he told EFE .
The resident, who left his home “with the clothes & rdquor ;, He has detailed that, after entering for some valuables accompanied by a firefighter, his studio has been found “broken & rdquor; by the “projectiles & rdquor; of the explosion. “All the projectiles have hit our façade, the one that overlooks the inner courtyard. The third and fourth are the ones who have suffered the most”, he narrated.