Abstract
On July 11, 1978, a truck with a tank loaded with liquid propylene crashed into a camping ground, Los Alfaques, on the Eastern coast of Spain, giving rise to a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion (BLEVE) with a large number of casualties. The Swedish Organizing Committee for Disaster Medicine initiated a study of the events by sending the authors to Spain to make all possible observations at the scene. We were in the camp 48 hours after the explosion.The CampThe camping ground Los Alfaques is situated about 190 kilometers south of Barcelona and 165 kilometers north of Valenica. There are hospitals of varying sizes on the route to these big cities, both of which have large hospitals equipped with burn units of high standards, Francisco Franco Hospital in Barcelona and La Fe Hospital in Valencia.
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