The presiding judge of Courtroom number 3 of the Civil and Instruction Section of the Trial Court of Catarroja has issued an order this Monday in which the official number of fatalities caused by the Valencia storm on October 29, 2024, is raised to 231.
A 60-year-old man died early Monday morning when he fell from a fourth floor while fleeing the flames that started in his home. The fire began around four in the morning, for unknown reasons, inside the apartment at number 102 Comte Borrell Street in the Eixample district of Barcelona. The victim jumped into the void and despite the efforts of the medical personnel who tried to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation, he died at the scene.
Despite everything, Bárbara Sanz remains calm and in good spirits. And it is not easy. The family of this 35-year-old image consultant, married and with three children, including a little girl barely two years old, is going through an ordeal in their own home, in the center of Sabadell. The house of their dreams, a magnificent renovated home that has preserved many of the elements of the original from two centuries ago, was hiding a secret that is disrupting them. A few months ago, they discovered that behind the partition wall of one of the walls in the master bedroom, a colony of bats had taken hold and is growing day by day, with the inconveniences that this entails. Bats are protected animals, and that is why the Generalitat of Catalonia offers them as the only solution to “move house” until the breeding season of the animals ends and they can be safely removed.
The former socialist mayor of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Pere Albó, was arrested yesterday afternoon for masturbating in public at a hotel in Santa Susanna (Maresme), according to Cadena Ser. The former Junts deputy in the Parliament has been accused of exhibitionism after entering the premises without authorization, where there were about fifty people, many of them minors.
Bombers de la Generalitat has been working since this morning against a vegetation fire declared at 12:45 in the municipality of Lladurs (Solsonès) affecting the Santa Eulàlia area, where the fire has been gaining intensity. This fire coincides with the forest fire declared on July 8 in the Pla de Manlleu, between Aiguamúrcia and Sant Jaume dels Domenys (Tarragona), of similar characteristics, which initially forced about 500 people to be confined through the Es-Alert system and affected 89 hectares, of which 74 were forest and 15 agricultural, according to provisional data from the Agents Rurals.
When the Los Gallardos fire, which has claimed the lives of 13 people and has consumed more than 7,000 hectares, could be declared under control today and the emergency has been downgraded to operational situation 0, Pedro Sánchez and Juanma Moreno appeared together at the Advanced Command Post located in the town of Turre, Almería, to deliver a message that goes beyond the tragedy’s toll: Spain needs to prepare to live with increasingly extreme emergencies, as they have highlighted that new generation fires are much more complex and voracious than those of a decade ago.
The Local Police of València have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of a sexual assault on a woman outside a nightclub in the Malva-rosa beach area. Two officers prevented the rape just before it occurred and were assaulted by the suspect.
The fight against social inequalities generated by climate change in cities is already one of the main pillars of the Pla de Barris of Catalonia. This was emphasized on Monday by Mayor Jaume Collboni during the presentation of 32 initiatives aimed at revitalizing the Barcelona neighborhood of Ciutat Meridiana, 32 initiatives that will involve an investment of more than 25 million euros to be carried out jointly by the City Council and the Generalitat between the years 2027 and 2031.
The President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has lashed out this Monday against the “deeply unfair” and “imposed” financing model by the Government, with which Catalonia “is going to take 22% of the entire system” while “the regions can no longer endure” a situation of underfunding.
Once fire crews intervened early this morning in the fire at an industrial warehouse in the Ramarga industrial estate, at kilometer point 5 of the M-103, in the Madrid town of Ajalvir.