{"id":604618,"date":"2026-05-26T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604618\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:54:15","slug":"malaga-hotel-fire-hundreds-evacuated-as-huge-fire-breaks-out-at-ibis-hotel-in-spanish-holiday-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604618\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaga hotel fire: Hundreds evacuated as huge fire breaks out at Ibis hotel in Spanish holiday hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds have been evacuated after a huge fire broke out at a hotel in a British-favourite holiday hotspot.<\/p>\n

Firefighters tried to extinguish the blaze at an Ibis hotel in Malaga, Spain for hours after a blaze broke out and quickly spread throughout its floors.<\/p>\n

Guests and staff began to be escorted out of the hotel at on Sunday night – though none have been injured in the inferno.<\/p>\n

The fire, which has burned for nearly 24 hours, started in the attached Le Grand Cafe bar, on the ground floor of the hotel.<\/p>\n

It then quickly spread throughout the hotel to the upper floors, with huge billows of smoke being seen from the top of the building.<\/p>\n

Benito Martinez, supervisor for the firefighting operation, told Spanish media the fire was now “under control”, adding it was likely the firefighting crew would be at the scene all day.<\/p>\n

He told Malaga Hoy half of the hotel had been affected by the fire, which was called in at 1.26am (12.26 am BST).<\/p>\n

The Ibis Hotel was then evacuated and an operation to combat the fire began – which has been difficult to tackle as some fire is “hidden” in the building, Mr Martinez said.<\/p>\n

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The fire previously seemed to be extinguished, before reigniting higher up in the building at 6pm.<\/p>\n

He said: “Basically, the entire restaurant’s decor is made of wood, and that generated a significant heat load that quickly spread.”<\/p>\n

Firefighters have attempted to help evacuated guests who have reported passports, plane tickets and documents remain in the hotel.<\/p>\n

Six firefighting crews, with three water tankers, four fire engines, and two aerial ladder trucks attended the scene, with emergency service personnel expected to remain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The fire, which has burned for nearly 24 hours, started in the attached Le Grand Cafe bar<\/p>\n

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Firefighters battled to contain the blaze in the May Spanish heat<\/p>\n

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Domingo Gil, who had been staying in the the third floor of the hotel, said he “woke up and started smelling smoke”.<\/p>\n

“We realised there was a fire, put on our shoes, and ran away. In three or four minutes, everyone was out on the street outside the hotel. We saw the restaurant sign fall down,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said his belongings, including his phone, medication, cards and money, were still in the building.<\/p>\n

Jose Alarcon, another guest staying at the third floor of the hotel, said he left with “only the clothes on our backs”.<\/p>\n

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Flames had ripped through the hotel’s cafe – before later breaking out once again<\/p>\n

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“We’re waiting for the fire to be extinguished and to see when we can get our things out, if anything is left,” he added.<\/p>\n

Guests were relocated to other hotels at around 5.30am, Mr Gil added.<\/p>\n

“How can a relatively new building burn from top to bottom and the flames not be controlled all day long?” one onlooker asked on social media.<\/p>\n

The Ibis Hotel was built in 2007 and its interior is now largely gutted, according to Spanish outlet 101tv.es.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds have been evacuated after a huge fire broke out at a hotel in a British-favourite holiday hotspot.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1104,49,50,640,51,47,52,48,231],"class_list":["post-604618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}