Some 115,000 people greeted the arrival of the year 2026 on María Cristina Avenue in Barcelona, where a party with pyrotechnics, music and drones was organized this Wednesday evening. The show featured the participation of the musician Marc Parrot and the … production, as in recent years, from Group F, with four pieces inspired by the four elements (air, water, earth and fire), as reported by Barcelona City Hall in a press release this Thursday.
According to the council, Parrot’s music united “a past that took the form of traditional rhythms and sounds with a future embodied by electronics and newer sounds.” With instruments like the guitar, grallas and flabiol, different musical styles were explored, from rumba to habanera, offering “new sound textures”. Furthermore, the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc It was there again, after a few years of interruption due to periods of drought.
On the other hand, the emergency call number 112 in Catalonia received 5,899 calls until 8:00 a.m. this Thursday for 4,142 open files related to New Year’s celebrations, as reported by Service 112 and reported by Ep. By region, 56.88% of calls came from the Barcelonés region, 11.33% from Vallès Occidental and 8.04% from Bajo Llobregat. The majority of calls to the emergency number were received between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Several fires
In this sense, the firefighters of the Generalitat, as reported by the emergency service, carried out more than a hundred services this evening due to traffic accidents, house openings, urban rescues and house fires without serious injuries.
Among them, the firefighters intervened on a fire which affected the dining room of the an apartment in Tortosa (Tarragona) at 4:07 a.m., in which three people were affected and one of them was evacuated by the Emergency Medical Service (SEM), and a fire in a premises in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona) in which the kitchen hood burned and one person was evacuated by the SEM.
They also performed at 10 p.m. at night with eight endowments in the fire in an attic of a six-story building in Martorell (Barcelona), which caused no injuries but forced confinements and preventive evacuations and, on the other hand, also in the fire in a hotel room in Blanes (Girona), for which the establishment was evacuated.
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