The bodies of the 13 victims of the fire in the Atalayas de Murcia leisure area were found in a space of twenty square meters on the first floor of the Fonda Milagro nightclub, according to Juan Ángel Navidad, an official from the City Council Fire Department. of the regional capital, at noon before a cloud of journalists in front of the police cordon on Isla Cristina street.
The remains of four of the deceased, as Christmas detailed, were in the toilets where they had to take refuge from the fire, while seven more were in two groups along the corridor of the reserved boxes and two more among the rubble of the area of toilets.
After the material collection of the rubble from ground zero yesterday before the Scientific Police accessed the premises, where six specialists are working to investigate the causes and origin of the fire, the officer specified that the ship – referring to the three nightclubs as a whole – “is not useful at all”, being in very poor condition. “It is the City Council and the owners of the premises that will now have to decide whether to declare them in ruins” for possible demolition,” he added.
According to Christmas, the members of the Fire Department arrived at Isla Cristina Street eight minutes after the alert call from the single emergency telephone number, with 80% of the park being in the area. Upon arrival, the firefighters “entered the Fonda Milagros building without a water line in order to help the people inside,” managing to remove two people who “were lost and disoriented.”
Regarding the structural integrity of the ship, Navidad has revealed that “its structure was deformed but the first floor in no case collapsed, but a toilet wall and a railing did.”
