The fire, whose causes are still unknown, originated in the early afternoon of this Tuesday in a flat on the first floor of the building The firefighters have carried out the extinction work quickly and the fire has been satisfactorily controlledA 55-year-old man He has died intoxicated by smoke and three other neighbors have had to be rescued by firefighters from a fire that occurred this afternoon in a building in the Madrid district of Puente de Vallecas, Europa Press Emergencies Madrid has informed. The fire, whose causes are still unknown , originated in the early afternoon of this Tuesday in an apartment on the first floor of the building on Pedro Laborde street, in the Palomeras Southeast neighborhood. Upon arrival, City Hall Firefighters found that the fire was very developed and the flames came out of the window. As they knew that there could be someone inside that house, they went looking for her and found her in cardiac arrest due to smoke poisoning in the third floor stairwell next to a puppy. The firefighters have removed him from the place and the Samur-Civil Protection toilets have performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation maneuvers on him for 30 minutes, but it has not been possible to reverse the stoppage and they have confirmed his death. The firefighters have carried out the extinction work quickly and the fire has been satisfactorily controlled. They have verified that the door of the house that was the focus of the fire was open, so the stairs had been flooded with smoke and a little had sneaked through the doors of the upper houses, whose tenants were nervous and anxious. , they have reassured them and three neighbors of the victim have been rescued by the building’s facade. All are unharmed and have been discharged on the spot by the toilets. Police are now investigating the causes of what happened.