Barely 200 meters separate the entrance of Villafranca de Ebro of the residence of adults. The track starts with an improvised bullring and ends at the bridge over the stream, between reeds and mosquitoes despite it being November. This Friday hundreds of people visited it, including ambulancesthe flood of regional and national media, authorities and family members. The sun has risen in Villafranca at mid-morning, along with the arrival of the medical vehicles, Red Cross o to DFA Foundation. Help, but also questions. “My daughter is inside but I don’t know anything about me “Aunt,” says a woman who carries a crutch in one hand and her dog, held by the hand. correain the other.
The good news comes later, although the “senile dementia” of her relative prevents her from reconstructing a story of the events in which, witnesses, politicians and emergency services agree, two employees of the residence have been the anonymous salvador. If the ten deadthe blow of figures that has raised the Villafranca fire above Cuarte in 2015, have not been more, it is thanks to them, as witnesses, employees, emergency services and politicians agree.
Two figures, unknown at the moment, who have allowed, without going any further, to save Pilar. She is José Ángel’s mother, she is 93 years old and suffers from mobility problems. He had resided in the Villafranca Gardens for “at least seven or eight” and his family had no complaints. “I live here, it’s just a stone’s throw away, for me marvelous and the very good treatment”, he comments. It is not the first time he has approached the center during the morning after the tragedy. He had already done it around 7:30, with the first warning. They had passed two and a half hours since the beginning of the events. “They let me pass and I talked to her, I saw that it was good. He goes a little crazy and doesn’t remember anything after five minutes,” he explains with a calm gesture. “It is not the same as coming without knowing if your family member had died or not”, dice.
Paloma and her husband Alfonso They have found out everything from the news. Her father is still alive. The confirmation took a few minutes. “We do not know that they were two workers“The rest have come immediately, whether they have a holiday or not, because they are from the towns next door,” he adds.
Paquita Morata (left) and Carmen Torrijo attend the media in Villafranca
A CIGAR, THE MAIN HYPOTHESIS
On the straight line that separates the last houses of the town and the police cordon, the main hypothesis: and cigarette in a space where smoking is prohibited would have caused the fire. The manager of the Aragonese Association for Dependency (Arade), Paquita Moratagrab the hand of the residence director, Carmen Torrijowho endures the journalists’ questions through tears. “Please calm down,” is heard. “It has been a terrible misfortune in a center where very very correctly. There are times that misfortunes “They cannot be avoided,” Morata transmits, although the message can be signed by both. Torrijo, for his part, focuses on the connection between the residence and the town, where it was common for inmates, older people but also younger people with mental health pathologies, to be part of their lives.
He Villafranca Town Hall This Friday it has become an improvised center to receive family members. Same scenes in the pavilion of a town shaken at dawn by tragedy. A part of the Lower Bank He also looks at Huesca, at the Vitalia residence, and at Zaragoza. At the Hospital Royo Villanova The two injured as a result of the fire remain in the capital, one of them is 65 years old and has been admitted to the ICU, in serious condition.
