Three seriously injured after jumping from a train in the proximity of the Bejís fire

Sanitary personnel have treated this Tuesday an accident on a train passing through Torás (Castellón) that has left at least twenty injured. According to Adif sources, a train that was running between Valencia and Zaragoza has stopped due to the proximity of the Bejís fire. It was at this time that some travelers have broken the windows to escape the fire, but have fallen directly into the fire, according to Adif.

The two most serious injuries are a 58-year-old woman with a very serious prognosis and a 15-year-old woman with a serious prognosis with 7% of the body burned. Both are in Faith.

A mother and son are admitted to the clinic, she with severe burns and the child with minor burns. The woman could be transferred to the Faith.

The Sagunto hospital has treated four people, two firefighters discharged at the time and a patient who will be transferred to Fe. The other injured person has been transferred to the General Hospital with a fracture.

In addition, between eight and ten minor injuries have been transferred in TNA to the field hospital that has been set up in Jérica.

To attend to this emergency, two SAMUs, three SVBs, three TNAs, a helicopter and an Emergency with Multiple Victims truck have been mobilized.

The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has affirmed, regarding the train incident, that it was “at a certain moment” when the wind “has caused the fire to reach the track.”

In statements to À Punt from the forward command post of the fire, located in Viver, the head of the Consell confirmed that nine people have been evacuated, one of them, the most seriously, by helicopter. “We are awaiting its evolution,” he has expressed.

Puig has indicated that, apparently, what has happened is that at “a certain moment an episode of wind has caused the fire to reach the road.” “From that moment on there have been different versions that I think do not correspond to my analysis,” he said, adding that Renfe “will give the appropriate explanations of what has happened.”

In any case, Puig has insisted that the greatest concern is the people who have been injured and has wished them to have “a recovery as soon as possible.” “It is essential that people are protected and that there is safety, both for neighbors and for firefighters.”

For her part, the delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, also in statements to the Valencian public television, collected by Europa Press, has assured that the train driver decided to return to Caudiel, when they arrived at the height of Torás ( one of the municipalities evacuated this Tuesday due to the Bejís forest fire), seeing that ashes were falling.

And it was during this return maneuver that a group of passengers “opened the doors and got out, when these problems occurred”, added the delegate, who indicated that the train had finally arrived at the station Caudiel «no problem».