A fire has broken out in the fishing port of La Bajadilla in Marbella in Spain.
Boats worth millions of dollars are feared to have been destroyed in a huge fire that ripped through a boat storage facility in the Costa del Sol holiday resort of Marbella, with international boat owners amongst those expected to be suffering losses. It was reported locally, but yet to be confirmed by officials, that about 100 boats between 20 and 40 feet long were at the warehouse-like building that went up in flames.
First responders attended the location near the city centre at around 7pm local time.
The entrance to the port was cordoned off, but large crowds gathered as flames took hold of the building, which belongs to Marina Marbella and is believed to have been used for storage and boat repairs.
A spokesperson for Marbella Town Hall confirmed: “About 30 firefighters are fighting a fire at a maritime warehouse in the port of La Bajadilla.
“Local police, civil defence and health services are also nearby.”
The mayor of the city, Angela Munoz, added in a tweet: “I am following the development of the situation after a fire broke out at the Marina Marbella warehouse in the fishing port.
According to a local Spanish report, the fire had started in a building where about 100 boats were stored or repaired.
“The building serves as a winter harbor, where boats are kept after they have been taken out of the water and some have been repaired.”
The cause of the fire is not clear.
