Two people have needed some oxygen due to smoke inhalation.

A fire breaks out in the Tinajo wrestling field with 20 people inside

Two of the people needed some oxygen because of the smoke.....See the photo gallery

September 15 2016 (12:54 WEST)
A fire breaks out in the Tinajo wrestling arena with 20 people inside
A fire breaks out in the Tinajo wrestling arena with 20 people inside

Two people have had to be treated with oxygen after inhaling the smoke that has broken out in the Tinajo wrestling field. Alicia Páez is still showing the fright on her face. "It could have been worse," says the councilor of the Teguise City Council who accompanied the twenty people who had come from La Graciosa to the tribute paid to them by the Cabildo at the Mancha Blanca Craft Fair. This group of people slept in the two rooms that are in the upper part of the field that is left to them by the city council.

According to Alicia Páez, "at around six in the morning Gregorio woke us up alerting us that there was a fire in some mattresses that were piled up on the ramp that leads to the rooms where we stayed to sleep." Once 112 was alerted, and while waiting for the arrival of the firefighters, "we removed other mattresses that were there and started with some hoses that are in the wrestling field and some fire extinguishers to put out the flames," explains Páez.

Members of the Tinajo Civil Protection, agents of the Civil Guard and the Local Police, the firefighters of the Lanzarote Emergency Consortium and an ambulance from the SUC have moved to the place.

 

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