A 10 -year -old boy and his aunt, 75, have died this morning in the fire of his home in the Pacense town of Castilblanco due to reasons that are investigated although everything indicates that the origin could be in a firewood stove.
As explained to Efe the mayor of the town, Eusebio Fernández, the fire has been declared about half past four in the morning and when he arrived, shortly before five o’clock, “everything was burning.”
The councilor has specified that the property was an old house, with the wooden roofs, in which the elderly, widow who has family in a town in Toledo, spent most of the time in Castilblanco, and that the Child is a nephew-niet who sometimes went home to sleep to be company.
The prime mayor has also explained that the moment of the fire was also in the house the father of the child, whom he managed to take out the back of the house, “but by the aunt and the child they could not do anything”
The first mayor has confessed that the neighbors are very affected and that the City Council will declare three days of mourning, “but little can be done.”
For his part, the head of the Agrupado Firefighters of Herrera-Castuera, Juan Carlos Moraga Merino, has detailed that they received the call about five in the morning informing of a burning house with people inside, where he has moved A endowment with two vehicles.
When they were approaching the municipality, as this is in a high, “the flames of the house were already seen” and the arrival to the place have encountered the “completely burning” ground floor and also affected the upper part, where there was a species of attic.
The Civil Guard communicates that there were two people inside which nothing is known, so when they suffocate the fire, a tracking with thermal chamber has been made and the woman has been located in the hall and the child in one of one of The bedrooms. A priori has not affected other homes, although he confesses that “it has been quite virulent”, due above all to everything to the roof, it was made of wood.
In the area there was an endowment with three troops and at the moment you are waiting for the coroner to decree the lifting of the bodies and it is unknown when the funeral will be.
A 41 -year -old boy, father of the child, was also affected by smoke inhalation and was transferred to the Talarubias hospital with mild forecast.
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