New Year's Eve 2023 was “relatively calm” in the Community of Madrid, with “a lot of work by the emergency services, but there were much worse nights,” according to a spokesman for the emergency number 112 In its balance sheet it indicates a slight decrease in attacks and a “significant” increase in both fires, “but small and in containers,” and drunkenness. The number of traffic accidents and violations has also decreased, which the spokesman attributes to increased social awareness. In the capital Madrid, emergencies also occur at night “It was intense but without any serious incidents”.
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From twelve o'clock at night to nine o'clock in the morning on Monday 1st, 3,128 people called 112, representing a 7% increase in call volume compared to the previous year. The 112 intervened in 182 fights and attacks, a decrease of 1%. “No serious injuries were reported to any of them,” emphasizes the spokesman. Fires, on the other hand, increased by 37%, with a total of 98, as did alcohol poisoning, which accounted for 28% more, with a total of 183. “These are smaller fires, most of them in containers.” “They happen every New Year's Eve, but more this year,” says the spokesman, emphasizing that “all cases of alcohol poisoning are mild.” The traffic accidents are also with 35 accidents down by 5%, as well as traffic violations: 37% less, 17 in total.
The worst of that day, according to the 112 spokesman, occurred before the period covered by the balance sheet and was a head-on collision between two cars that occurred at nine o'clock at night at kilometer 1 of the M-300, near the municipality of Arganda del Rey, with one dead and three seriously injured.
Summa 112 confirmed the death of a middle-aged man, the driver of one of the cars, and stabilized and evacuated a very seriously injured person and two seriously injured people, all from the same vehicle. The injured include a 35-year-old woman with severe head trauma who was taken to La Paz in very serious condition on October 12, a 39-year-old man who had hip and pelvic fractures and was taken to La Paz in serious condition, and another 30-year-old man who also suffered a serious head injury and was evacuated to Gregorio Marañón, where he was admitted in serious condition. All accident victims had to be rescued by the fire department.
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According to a spokeswoman for Emergencies Madrid, the night in the capital “was intense for the emergency services but fortunately did not leave any serious events”. The installation of the bells “went without incident, both the previous evacuation of the area and the subsequent evacuation of the grapes.” The Selur cleaning service collected 31,100 kilos of waste in Puerta del Sol, where 4,291 glasses were distributed. “At two in the morning they had already completed the cleaning of Sol using 32 machines and 95 workers,” says the spokesman.
Municipal firefighters carried out 65 operations from eight o'clock in the afternoon of the 31st to eight o'clock in the morning of that day, the 1st, most of them, 42, in fires in containers “due to fireworks” and in the rescue of people trapped in elevators in buildings were enclosed. Emergencies Madrid regrets the burning of containers “which repeats itself every year”.
For his part, Samur performed 255 procedures in the same 12 hours. “Nothing unusual: 75 alcohol poisonings, 36 physical injuries, five drug poisonings, 49 falls and six traffic accidents,” says the spokesman. None of them were serious, “except for one overdose that led to cardiac arrest, possibly caused by the consumption of toxic substances.”
The city police received 1,271 calls between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., 319 of which were about noise incidents. Officials carried out 122 inspections of nightclubs and recommended 31 of them for sanctions. In addition, 82 alcohol tests were carried out, of which 11, i.e. one in eight, were positive.
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