A lightning from the strong storm that you downloaded first thing this Saturday morning on Barcelona has fallen on a house of Vallvidrera, which has unleashed a fire in the home, an event in which two people were injured.
Sources of the City Council of Barcelona have reported that the event took place around 8:00 a.m. and that the lightning affected a wooden house located at number 18 Gerau de Liost street, where its occupants would have jumped from the house to the garden due to the speed with which the flames spread.
The health services have evacuated the two people with trauma of various considerations to a hospital in Barcelona. The firefighterswho have moved to the area with two ambulances and eight crews, have managed to surround the fire and are working to extinguish the flames.
Catalonia is located in alert for the forecast of heavy rains this Saturday in almost all of its territory, especially in the pre-coastal and coastal areas, so Civil defense has activated the INUNCAT plan. The Meteocat service has reported that from this Friday afternoon until 10:00 a.m. this Saturday, an average of 20 liters per square meter has been exceeded in a good part of Catalonia, with large areas of the territory where more than 50 liters.
The greatest accumulation of rain has occurred in Montmell (Tarragona), with 93 litersand Alinyà (Lleida), with 90. Rainfall has also been intense in towns such as Mont-roig (Tarragona) and Sant Sadurní d’Anoia (Barcelona).
During the night, the emergency telephone received a hundreds of calls for incidents caused by rain, most of the regions of Barcelonès (25), Baix Camp (14) and Garraf (12). Meteocat predicts that rain will continue to fall throughout this Saturday morning in much of Catalonia, with precipitation accumulation in many points around 90 liters.
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