Carnaval in Tenerife 2013

[Janet]

The hospital has said that Saida Prieto remains in critical condition and on life support, but is stable, and in a situation that allows her parents to be slightly calmer and more hopeful. They can visit Saida twice a day, for 45 minutes a time, at 8.15am and 6.30pm. Meanwhile, Santa Cruz Ayuntamiento, represented by Mayor Bermúdez in person, has taken a three-month let on an apartment in Seville for the family's immediate use. Saida's recovery, however, is said to be likely to be a very slow process.  JA

[El Profesor]

Does this place embed too?


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[Nova]

It does if you take the # off the end, for some reason...

As the top comment says, very sad knowing what happened just a short time later.

[Janet]

The designer of the gown with cannons is getting all the flak (sorry, no pun intended) for the design, and for not getting permission ... but there's a lot of spin going on here.

The reality is that the use of indoor fireworks in a design was indeed known about and permitted by the organizers.

La concejala de Seguridad reconoció a la Cope, antes de la reunión de urgencia del pasado jueves para analizar el suceso de la gala, que la candidata de Radio Club tenía autorización por escrito de Fiestas para usar fuegos fríos y por eso "todos los recursos estaban detrás del escenario".

It was expressly this permission, given in writing, that appears to be why there were bomberos on hand! And yet they are trying to slate the designer.

Sinverguenzas.

El Dia

[Nova]

Of course they'll be looking for a scapegoat - nobody wants to take responsibility for such a horrific outcome.  Bastards.

[Janet]

Same people who thought it was best for the show to go on and excuse it by claims of a "minor technical problem with one of the fantasias ..."

Bastards, yes. Hopefully strung-up-soon bastards ...

[Janet]

Although Saida remains gravely ill and in intensive care, the hospital has been able to remove her from the life support which was enabling her to breath mechanically. There will be a fuller medical bulletin from the hospital tomorrow, but this seems like some very much hoped for good news. JA

[Janet]

There is still such a long way to go, but there is excellent news this morning that Saida has been able to leave the intensive care unit in Seville to go to a ward in the burns unit. Yesterday, she could breathe unaided. Today she's on the ward. A long way to go, but little steps ... JA

[Janet]

Saida is now fully conscious, is aware of what happened to her, knows where she is, and is eating solid food. She also knows that she has a "critical prognosis", and the hospital is being extremely cautious and attempting to avoid creating over-optimism. Medics say that her second-degree burns are deep, and that these, together with the third-degree burns she suffered, mean that she will remain for the time being in the Burns Unit in "critical condition", with a projected recovery of several months.  JA

[Guanche]

I think it's a good sign she is taking solid food. Hopefully it shows that there is no internal damage, the cause of most complications. Fingers crossed.