The Generalitat Firefighters have declared the fire affecting the main building of the Animal Health Research Center (CReSA) facilities, belonging to IRTA (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), under control. The fire burning the adjacent warehouse containing straw to feed the animals used for research has also been stabilized. The flames have not affected any person or animal. The fire has not affected either the laboratories or the biocontainment area, where the animals are located and where the complex's high security measures are in place to protect biological samples. In fact, IRTA has confirmed in a statement that there is no biosecurity risk related to this fire, as there has been no impact on the biosafety level 3 (BSL3) laboratory.

Forests, key allies in the fight against climate change due to their ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO₂), are losing effectiveness in Europe.

"The premises did not meet the conditions of habitability," said Mayor Ada Colau when she arrived this morning at the scene of the fire which took the lives a family of two adults and two small children. And it was not a house, it was a bank office. The situation of substandard housing in which this family was living is neither an isolated case nor a new phenomenon. In Barcelona alone, more than 700 people are living in shanties and abandoned premises or spaces, according to the latest data from the Fundació Arrels, based on the Transparency portal of the Barcelona City Council.

"The neighbours had long been warning that someday a misfortune would happen here and no one did anything. And today it happened... And it's terrible," explained a neighbour at number 20 Plaça Tetuan in Barcelona this Tuesday morning, where a fire early this morning claimed the lives of four members of a family: father, mother and two very young children, aged between one and three. They had been living in a former bank office of Evo Banco for more than a year, and the city social services had been monitoring the children since they were alerted, in 2020, that they were living in these squatted premises in poor conditions. Early this morning, for reasons still unknown, the ground floor caught fire and the family was trapped inside.