BREAKING: At least 300 homes estimated damaged or destroyed after large fire…See more

Flames swallowed their homes before most could even scream. In Pamplona Alta, San Juan de Miraflores, families watched decades of sacrifice vanish in a single afternoon. Walls of fire leapt from one fragile house to the next, then into a hidden fireworks workshop. Explosions echoed through the hill, children cried, and hundreds were left with

They escaped with whatever they could carry: a backpack, a document folder, a single photo pulled from the smoke. In the steep alleys of Pamplona Alta, neighbors formed human chains to pass buckets of water, while firefighters fought to stop the blaze from devouring the entire hillside. The makeshift houses, built of wood, cardboard, and thin metal sheets, burned almost instantly, leaving only blackened frames where lives once unfolded.

Now, amid the ashes, residents search for anything salvageable. Authorities count the damage in numbers, but each “affected home” is a family suddenly homeless, a child without school supplies, an elderly person without medicine. Investigators focus on the clandestine pyrotechnics workshop, yet for the victims the cause changes nothing tonight. They sleep under tarps and open skies, waiting for someone to arrive not just with answers, but with real, immediate help.