A woman is in a critical condition and two other people have been injured following a severe fire in a residential building in Badalona during the early hours of Wednesday morning. The blaze, which completely destroyed a second-floor flat, prompted a major response from emergency services.
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Emergency services received the alarm at approximately 3:30 AM on Wednesday, March 18, reporting a fire in a six-storey building on Carrer de Verdi. Seven fire crews from the Bombers de la Generalitat, Catalonia’s firefighting corps, were dispatched to the scene in the coastal city just north of Barcelona.
Intense Blaze Required Major Emergency Response
Arriving at the scene, firefighters encountered an intense blaze that had fully engulfed a second-floor apartment. The flames also damaged the floor below, according to initial reports. Crews successfully rescued two people trapped inside the burning flat.
In a social media update around 7 AM, the Bombers confirmed the fire had been extinguished. The Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) managed the medical response, mobilising four ambulances and a joint team to treat the injured.
In total, four people received medical attention at the scene. Paramedics rushed one woman, who sustained critical injuries, to Barcelona’s renowned Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron for specialist care. They also transported a man with less severe injuries to the local Hospital Municipal de Badalona.
Emergency services also treated a further two people, a man and a woman, for less serious injuries; both were discharged at the scene, as El Periódico reported. Authorities do not yet know the fire’s cause, and an investigation will follow.
A Series of Recent Incidents
This incident is one of several emergencies affecting the Barcelona metropolitan area in recent weeks. Public safety services have also managed the aftermath of a shooting in Badalona’s Sant Roc neighbourhood and a serious stabbing in a Sant Martí warehouse that also left a man critically injured.
Other recent events requiring emergency responses include a bar fire in L’hospitalet and a tunnel fire in Barcelona that caused significant disruption to key train lines, highlighting the constant challenges faced by the region’s first responders.
