Alicante It does not sleep when the fire calls. And this morning, more than 200 monuments between the 184 adult and children burning. This year 2025 with a special pyrotechnic seal Well, gunpowder abounded in all districts in a kind of Tribute to the late teacher Pedro Luis Sirvent.
Seconds after midnight The traditional palm broke out as a volcanothe signal that marked the beginning of the dance of fire, in charge of Pyrotechnics Brothers Ferrández. It opened over the sky as a range of pearly white light 300 meters in diameter visible to kilometers.
Las BELLAAS DEL FOC, Adriana Vico and Valentina Tárragaand his ladies, they started the cremà at the foot of the fire. The traca of the Official bonfire Infant as of the adult from the same town hall place Given the impossibility of being able to remain on the balconies of the town hall, such as tradition, unable to use them for their deterioration.
First, fast “H2O”, by Sergio Gómez. His blue tones, in tribute to the rain, were lost between a column of black smoke. The disappearance of his bonfire plunged the Bellea Infantil already her ladies in a sea of tears.
He then began to burn “identity”, the work of Pedro Espadero. Two gunpowder shots, one at the base and one in the auction, activated combustion with a fireworks show fired by Adrián Sirvent, son of Pedro Luis.
A moment of the Cremà of the Official Bonfire / Rafa Arjones
The flames amounted to the monument 20 meters high and made by 75 % in wood. In five minutes they licked the structure in a high voltage show that the Belleas rose to see through the windows of the City Council. In a quarter of an hour the structure fell. After more than 25 minutes on fire, the main figure collapsed between applause. The square was filled with smoke and emotion while the fire wrapped the ninots. The wind is not the best ally for a cremà night. Numerous paves flew over the public stationed in the first row and the Firefighters began a prompt Banyà. In the blink of an eye, the two works, with a total cost of 143,500 euros, were history.
To see the official bonfire burn the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, What caused the councilors of the PSOE and Esquerra Unida -ODeos to be absent, after leaving the previous dinner. The mayor of Compromís rose from the agape but did appear at the City Council. Mazón was accompanied by a broad representation of the Consell, including Marian Cano, José Antonio Rovira, Ruth Merino or Vicente Martínez Mus.
Foc Belleas enjoyed the palm tree in the street, where the official bonfires turned on
It was a magical night in all of Alicante but in the town hall square also of silence and tears. While the fire rose strongly by “identity,” The public honored Pedro Luis Sirvent, who died in March. A key figure in the recent history of the bonfires. The pyrotechnic teacher, tragically in March in an accident in his company, was for more than twenty years in charge of preparing the cremà of these monuments, a task that his son inherited last night.
The emotion was shared by the artists. Pedro Espadero was very satisfied. «It has been very good. Adrián Sirvent can be proud of the cremà who has prepared, and I at the end of this work. It has been a gold brooch, ”he said. Sergio Gómez celebrated the result of a technically complex cremà that was resolved with total precision. «It has been perfect. It was a complicated bonfire to burn because it was very aerial, with many holes, and Adrián Sirvent has seen it clear. It has been nailed ».
Foc's beauty did not hide his emotion. «It has been a cremà at the height of the bonfires that we have lived after a very intense, but very exciting week. We have enjoyed all together ». The festival highlighted the symbolism of starting this magical act from the town hall square, something that, according to the mayor's words, had never been done before.
The Foc Bellea and her ladies hugged last night at the Cremà of the Official Bonfire / Rafa Arjones
The President of the Fogueres Federation, David Olivares, who “the burning has been different. I would like to see her like this every year, feel it as close as we have felt. He especially highlighted the moment of the palm tree, which for the first time could be enjoyed from a new perspective. “I'm going to ask the City Council to always be like that,” he advanced.
The mayor, Luis Barcalahe valued the night very positively. «It has been an impeccable cremà, with a magnificent palm. He had not even the Bellea of the Foc or her ladies for many years, they could see her for a physical impossibility, but being able to go down to the square and witness it has been one of the most exciting and most exciting things for them, for the novelty. “
Mazón exalted the work of the festions and the commitment of all citizens with the party during these days. «It is not only thanks to the festions, it is thanks to the citizens, who tolerate some discomforts, who cannot reach their house because the street is cut, that endure the music. The coexistence is for everyone, and thanks to those Alicante we can live these parties ». He also called for responsibility.
Mazón came to see the official bonfire burn accompanied by several members of the Consell
Practically at the same time as the officer, the second prize burned, Seneca-autobusosas well as the Port D 'Alacant Floating Bonfirecontemplated by a crowd, and Plawhile the firefighters worked in several fires that the palm caused in the Benacantil.
After one in the morning, only embers were left in the Town Hall Square. More than two tons of wood converted into dust and I remember. The fire had done his job. The Belleas of the FOC and their bridesma Baver-the antigonswhere the Cremà of the First Prize of Special, the “Vanity” monument of the artist Paco Torres, with his impatient fogueerers.
About 00:38, the third special prize, Diputació-Renfe. It was a “rare” cremà with fireballs detaching from the main body.
Around one in the morning the discomfort was huge in the district of Don Bosco as the schedule planned for the cremà of his foguera had breached. The monument burned an hour earlier than expected, after notifying the neighbors for megafonía. Among the incidents a woman was treated on Jerusalem Street, with a possible arm fracture, six people were locked in an elevator in Benito Pérez Galdós and had to intervene in two ethyl commas, one in the postiguet and another in Florida.
