One person has died as a result of the collapse of a building due to an explosion that occurred around 4:00 a.m. on La Albericia Street, 24 in Santander, and ten have been injured to varying degrees, all of them stable within the different levels. serious.
In this sense, Valdecilla has indicated that there is no fear for the lives of any of the injured nor worsening of those admitted but rather “resolution” of the cases.
No further information about the deceased has been released.but it could be one of the three whose disappearance neighbors have reported to the emergency services.
Of the ten injuredseven are admitted to the Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital, five of them, four adults and one child under eight years old, in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Another person has been transferred to a mobile ICU to the Major Burns Unit of the Hospital de Cruces, in Vizcaya, affected by severe smoke poisoning and with burns on 37% of the body surface. The other two victims have been discharged for mild smoke poisoning.
This was reported at a press conference by the medical director of Valdecilla, Ramón Herrería, who detailed that of the seven people who remain admitted to the Cantabrian hospital, three are in the ICU polytrauma due to multiple fractures and also due to smoke inhalation, and a fourth is in the polyvalent ICU, exclusively due to smoke poisoning.
In addition, an 8 year old girl She is admitted to the pediatric ICU due to head trauma and smoke poisoning.
Besides, a police officer who has participated in the rescue efforts of the victims are under observation in the emergency room due to smoke poisoning; and a minor under 15 years of age remains in the Short Stay Unit of the Pediatric emergency room also due to smoke poisoning.
Herrería has indicated that six of those admitted will be treated throughout the morning in the hyperbaric chamber“which is the treatment when certain analytical levels indicate that smoke poisoning has secondary produced carbon monoxide poisoning.”
For its part, the Government Delegation has indicated that at around 4:02 a.m. the National Police received notice from several neighbors asking for help because there had been an explosion and a fire in building number 24 of La Albericia, which had partially collapsed.
At the moment the causes of the explosion are unknown, although the electricity and gas supply has been cut off in the buildings near the accident because gas leaks and with the objective of securing the area.
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