The city of València closes this Sunday the three days of official mourning decreed after the devastating fire of two blocks of a residential building in the Campanar neighborhood, which has left ten dead and for which a firefighter is still hospitalized. who was injured in the extinction and rescue tasks.
The city is trying to return to normal after the tragedy while the anthropological review work continues – due to the state in which the bodies were found – of three of the ten corpses found at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia and the investigation, under confidentiality. summary, on the causes of the fire by the scientific police.
Relocation of neighbors in a hotel
Many of those affected by the fire, which completely devoured the 138 homes in the residential building, remain relocated to a hotel and have met with the City Council to coordinate their needs, waiting for a point to be opened this Monday for the renovation of the building. DNI and official accreditations that they may have lost.
In addition, owners and tenants of the building are waiting to be able to occupy, starting this coming week, the 131 homes in the building that the Valencia City Council has made available to them and that they are working in these last few hours to clean and make them ready for to be able to live in them.
Work continues in the area
The area of the fire already dawns with another face after this Saturday the City Hall cleaning workers began to remove the ash and the burned remains and lumps in the vicinity of the damaged building.
Early in the morning the silence was broken only by the cleaning workers working in the area and the smell of burning still lingered in the air, while some curious onlookers approached the place and fired their cell phones to take photos.
The perimeter of the building is still cut like the previous days and municipal workers collect the tree branches that the firefighters had to cut next to the façade for their extinction and rescue tasks.
Flowers, candles and stuffed animals in tribute to the victims
Furthermore, in the roundabout in front of the burned building, a small altar has been improvised, which began to take shape yesterday with some roses and which this morning already shines with bouquets, candles, stuffed animals, white children’s slippers and a sign that reads ” semper en el cor de València” (always in the heart of València).
This morning it is expected that the residents of the building will be able to access the garage to pick up their vehicles.
official mourning
The official mourning for the victims, which ends at noon this Monday, has led to the suspension of all the Fallas events scheduled for this Sunday in the city, including the Crida with which the Fallas festival begins.
This Sunday, therefore, the macrodespertà has not been celebrated (from early in the morning), nor will the mascletà be celebrated in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento (scheduled at two in the afternoon), nor the Crida (at eight ) from the Serranos Towers.
During this day there is no official event planned for the victims, after the tribute of silence that was paid to them this Saturday at the institutional level, in the Town Hall Square, and at the neighborhood level, since several fallas in the neighborhood and other groups managed to summon hundreds of people per minute of silence in the area.
It will be attended to individually.
In this sense, Climent has announced that starting next week, the City Council, which is attending “case by case on an individual basis”, will begin to accommodate them in one of the 131 houses in the Safranar building that it has made available to them and that “they are already fully equipped.”
There, they will be able to stay, whether they are owners or tenants, “as long as necessary until their situation is clear” and they conclude the innumerable procedures that await them from now on.
BY : TTU
