They declare the risk of collapse of the four properties affected by the Basauri fire (Bizkaia)
Municipal technicians of the Basauri City Council have declared a risk of collapse of the four properties affected by the fire recorded this Friday in Basauri (Bizkaia) on portal number 5 of Kareaga Calle Goikoa. Therefore, residents of number 5 will not be able to return to their homes and, for the moment, nor those of 1 and 7, until the structural safety of the burned property can be guaranteed, while the homes of portal number 3 are found uninhabited.
As reported by the Basauri City Council, after the fire that occurred yesterday in Portal number 5 of Kareaga Goikoa, 33 residents of this property and portals 7 and 1 were evicted, which, although they were not directly affected by the fire, were evacuated by caution. These 33 people have been housed in a hotel and will be guaranteed a transient housing solution while they cannot return to their homes.
During the incident, a man died when he rushed out the window of his home to flee from the flames, so the municipal officials have wanted to transmit their condolences and support for family members and friends of the deceased. Municipal technicians and a fire endowment have inspected the state of the property in the early hours . Consequently, and until it is possible to carry out a more exhaustive inspection of the state of its structure, the risk of collapse of the four properties has been declared.
Regarding the causes of the fire, it is still waiting to know the origin of the fire and next Monday municipal technicians, firefighters and Ertzaintza will inspect the buildings in order to determine their status more accurately and the causes of the fire. The mayor of Basauri, Asier Iragorri, together with the councilors of Social Policy, Local Police and Urban Planning and Municipal Technicians, has held a planning meeting this morning with firefighters, Ertzaintza and Local Police to organize, among other issues, the access of the residents of real estate to collect their belongings.
Throughout today, evicted people will access shifts to withdraw their belongings and, for security reasons, will be accompanied and helped by Firefighters and Ertzaintza. Civil Protection will transfer them from the hotel where they are housed to homes. Beyond the temporary accommodation in a hotel during these first days, the mayor of Basauri is having conversations with the Basque Government Housing Ministry with the purpose of finding a joint response to the future.
As recalled by the Consistory, the homes and the floor of portals 1, 3, 5 and 7 of Kareaga Goikoa street are privately owned. Consequently, it is the owners who have the responsibility of maintaining their homes in good condition and avoiding their degradation. to its owners to make the minimum improvements and repairs required for finding the buildings in a “out of ordination”.
At the same time, and the view that in recent decades no action by private promoters has been carried out, since the soil is not public, the government team decided to promote a new approach through a specific modification of the General Plan of Urban Planning (PGOU) that made the operation executable. Thus, at the initiative of the government team, the union of the execution unit of Kareaga Goikoa was determined to another municipal property land in Uribarri, integrating everything into a single unit of action, thus allowing the sale of the land to a third To tear down the buildings of Kareaga Goikoa number 1, 3, 5 and 7 and urbanize the area and build 94 homes in Bizkotxalde. “That is, municipal public land will be given to make the operation viable,” he explained.
