Spanish emergency services say firefighters are battling a large fire in Valencia

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The images show flames and large clouds of black smoke engulfing buildings, with 22 fire crews battling strong winds to tackle the blaze. Emergency services said seven people were slightly injured, mostly from smoke inhalation. teleSUR

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00:00 The Spanish emergency services declared that firefighters were battling a huge fire ranging

00:06 through a multi-storey residential block in the eastern port city of Valencia on Thursday.

00:12 Images showed flames and vast clouds of black smoke engulfing the building, with 22 teams

00:18 of firefighters battling high winds to tackle the blaze, the 112th emergency services said.

00:25 In a post on X, the emergency services assured seven people had been lightly injured, a minor,

00:32 three adults and three firefighters, most of them suffering from smoke inhalation.

00:37 They said the fire started on the fourth floor and had rapidly spread.

00:42 The Spain's TV public television said there were more than 130 flats in the building,

00:48 which was 14 storeys high, saying it had been reduced to a skeleton, with a nearby building

00:54 also consumed by the flames.

00:57 It was also said that medics had set up a field hospital nearby.

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