Two people received burn injuries during the night of San Juan on a beach in Salobreña.
The emergency call centre, 112 received their first alert a few minutes before midnight, Friday, to say two people had received burns on Playa La Charca, next to the chiringuito there.
The coordinator despatched the Guardia Civil, Policía Local and an ambulance with paramedics onboard.
The two victims were a 40-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man, both suffering multiple burns. After receiving First Aid, they were both taken to Hospital Santa Ana in Motril.
It appears that the man was later transferred to the general hospital in Granada to undergo surgery.
Meanwhile, in Cataluña, a man died after falling into a bonfire in the municipality of Gimenells on the Pla de la Font (Lleida) and was unable to get out.
(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
Would you be referring to leprechauns, Patricks? That’s a mite unfair. Garden gnomes have a hard time as well, you know 😉
Chinese lanterns, water usage, using car indicators, mayor’s or town halls paying fines or police overtime… It wouldn’t be spain if these things were sorted out!
Rules are only for the little people?
It was not only Salobreña the Chinese lanterns were flying from, where we live in Taramay we could see they were also coming from San Cristóbal & over Los Pinos, very irresponsible .
I was surprised at the number of ‘Chinese’ lanterns flying over Salobrena. The wind took them all in land to land on dry grass and greenhouse plastic. I thought they were made illegal years ago so why are people not arrested?
Again, as I wasn’t there, I can only add what I heard, which was a loud thump of what I assume was a flammable liquid going off.
The main fire seemed to be higher than before midnight. Same as at bar BBQs, people add to the heat.
Perhaps it’s time to have just one it two organised bonfires and still let people do the sea thing. Perhaps alcohol, fires and crowds are a bad mixture.