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The Burn Disaster at Los Alfaques, Spain, 1978

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Rune Blomberg ,
Gösta Arturson  and
Kaare Brandsjö
Rune Blomberg
Affiliation:
From the Department of Anesthesia, Central Hospital, Karlskrona Sweden and theBurn Center of the University Hospitals of Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden.
Gösta Arturson
Affiliation:
From the Department of Anesthesia, Central Hospital, Karlskrona Sweden and theBurn Center of the University Hospitals of Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden.
Kaare Brandsjö
Affiliation:
From the Department of Anesthesia, Central Hospital, Karlskrona Sweden and theBurn Center of the University Hospitals of Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden.
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Extract

On July 11, 1978, a truck with a tank loaded with liquid propylene crashed into a camping ground, Los Alfaques, on the Eastern coast of Spain, giving rise to a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE) with a large number of casualties. The Swedish Organizing Committee for Disaster Medicine initiated a study of the events by sending the authors to Spain to make all possible observations at the scene. We were in the camp 48 hours after the explosion.

The Camp

The camping ground Los Alfaques is situated about 190 kilometers south of Barcelona and 165 kilometers north of Valenica. There are hospitals of varying sizes on the route to these big cities, both of which have large hospitals equipped with burn units of high standards, Francisco Franco Hospital in Barcelona and La Fe Hospital in Valencia.

Type
Part III: International Organizations - Planning - Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 363 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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