A total of eleven people have been injured when a fire broke out in a building in Puerto de la Cruz, two of them with burns, 112 sources reported.
Around 10:00 p.m. this Sunday, the Emergency Coordination Center received notice of the fire in a residential building on Valois street in Puerto de la Cruz and that there were people trapped inside.
A large device from the Tenerife Firefighters Consortium put out the fire, which affected the entire house.
Personnel from the Canary Islands Emergency Service attended the eleven injured, of which two were transferred to hospitals.
Members of the Local Police and the National Police collaborated in the extinction tasks and the rescue of the residents of the building affected by the fire.
The worst offenders were a 54-year-old woman, who suffered moderate upper limb burns and smoke inhalation poisoning, and a 44-year-old man, also with moderate upper limb burns.
She was evacuated to the Hospital Universitario Hospiten Bellevue and he to the Hospital Universitario de Canarias.
The rest of those affected, aged between 44 and 77 years, presented intoxication due to smoke inhalation, exhaustion due to heat collapse or anxiety crisis.
