A 25 -year -old, critically injured when a department of a tree in Carabanchel fell | News from Madrid | EUROtoday

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A 25 -year -old younger man has been critically injured this Friday when the department of a tree fell on the Plaza de San Vicente de Paul, within the Carabanchel district in Madrid. The Samur-Civil Protection has attended it, stabilized it and has transferred it to the Clinical Hospital.

The occasions have occurred a few minutes earlier than twelve o’clock at night time, at which period the aid name has been acquired, an emergency spokeswoman Madrid informs this newspaper. The man was sitting in a bench within the sq. when the department of a big tree has fallen.

“It suffers a severe craniocerebral trauma and a dislocation of the left hip,” says Natividad Ramos, head of the Samur guard. It has been stabilized, intubated and transferred in severe situation and with a discover, in order that they had been getting ready the operation, to the Clinical Hospital.

The Local Police has escorted the sanitary convoy. Meanwhile, the firefighters of the Madrid City Council have chopped the department that has fallen and have sanitated the tree. For now, extra particulars about what occurred are unknown, if the tree was for instance sick, however what’s disposable is a wind fall. Even in wholesome and windless timber, the sudden fall of branches will be produced if it is vitally sizzling, the impact referred to as summer season department drop.

A yr and a half in the past, there have been no severe accidents with timber in Madrid. The final one was in November 2023, when a 23 -year -old lady died after collapsing a tree in a pedestrian crossing on Almagro Street, in the midst of the superborrasca step Ciaran. The tree measured 20 meters, had a contour of a meter and a half and weighed between 2,000 and a couple of,500 kilos.

In 2018, A 4 -year -old boy died within the Retiro Park by falling on him a tree that the technicians had reviewed. The City Council mentioned that the copy had been reviewed in current days and that the technicians had ordered 40 minutes earlier than the closure of the park because of robust wind gusts. This truth led to the hardening of the closing protocol of the parks by wind or by warmth.

In September 2014, A 72 -year -old man died crushed by a department when he walked alongside the sidewalk of Virgen de las Viñas road, within the Villa de Vallecas district. Three months earlier than, on June 21, a 38 -year -old man died crushed by a department of 400 kilos when he performed along with his kids in El Retiro Park. According to the City Council, the tree – a false acacia – was wholesome, however suffered a decompensation of moisture and a warmth stroke.

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