Ana Rosa Quintana celebrates, through tears, the rescue of two people in the terrifying Valencia fire

A large fire destroyed a 14-story building on Thursday afternoon in the Calle Maestro Rodrigo in the Campanar neighborhood of Valencia. A terrible event that has forced the evening programs to cancel their programming to cover, live, the extinguishing of the fire and the rescue of two people, a father and a teenage daughter, who had been trapped on the seventh floor balcony. . It took almost two hours for the firefighters to get them to safety, a moment that Ana Rosa Quintana celebrated with a broken voice: “Oh… how emotional I am,” she said, barely holding back tears.

The communicator, like the rest of her team, has experienced moments of real tension as she saw how the fire spread quickly until it had practically devoured the entire building, with 138 homes that have been completely burned. Firefighters, Police and Civil Protection have evacuated all the neighbors in time except for two, who have stoically endured almost two hours under the hose that protected them from the flames until they jumped onto the crane: “It is the strongest thing that I have experienced in my life as a journalist,” said Ana Rosa. “It's really distressing.”

The program has also received a desperate call from Lucía, a neighbor of the building who had lost contact with her partner and feared the worst: “Calm down my life, breathe,” Ana Rosa tried to reassure her. “Don't think the worst, there is a lot of noise and a lot of commotion, you will see how your boyfriend is fine. Don't worry, honey,” she continued.

As we said, the program has raised its entire list and has dispensed with its SalseAR sections and the dialogue table with Xardá and company to dedicate all its minutes to live coverage of the fire. It has not been the only one: the Sonsoles Ónega program has also been one of the media speakers to report on what happened up to the minute and send safety messages to the residents of Valencia from the security agents. . Cristina Pardo and Iñaki López did it from La Sexta; from Telemadrid, Francine Gálvez and Emilio Pineda.