The City Council preventively evacuates a building on Avenida Mont Benidorm when a neighboring wall is detached

No personal injury or damaged housing

Benidorm City Council has preventively evacuated a building on Mont Benidorm Avenue after breaking off a wall located inside the property and adjacent to the property. The councilor for Urban Development, Lourdes Caselles, and the councillor of Citizen Security, Lorenzo Martínez, explained that this movement of land "has not caused personal injury, nor has affected any of the dwellings of the building," as they have been able to certify in a first inspection by firefighters and municipal technicians.

Caselles has detailed that it is specifically the Carthage building, and that everything indicates that the detachment has been produced by leaks of water caused by a leak in another community.

The detachment took place around 19.00 hours. The local police, firefighters, the municipal architect, and the town councilors of Urbanism and Citizen Security have also moved to the place.

After analyzing the situation, the City Council decided to evacuate the building in a preventive way "for reasons of zeal, security and urgency", a task that have been carried out by the firefighters. In total, it has been verified that there were only five occupied dwellings, since "being a building principally vacacional not all the buildings are occupied at this time".

The head of Citizen Security has indicated that although the City Council has offered the possibility of relocating those affected in tourist establishments in the city, the people who occupied these five floors have chosen to move with relatives or friends, or to reinstall in other holiday homes.

Finally, and after the technical inspection, the councilor of Urbanism has ruled that the detachment is related to the construction work of a wall that was running at another point on the plot of the Carthage building. In this sense, she stressed that there has been a "significant leakage in an adjacent street community" that "would have affected the wall next to the Carthage" and "where it is already working".