We're wrapping up our live coverage of the fire that tore through adjoining apartment buildings in Valencia on Thursday evening, killing ten people - including four members of one family.

You can catch up with the story here.

For more in-depth coverage, take a look at these:

• Did cladding help fire spread? What we know so far
• Video shows fire engulfing Valencia apartments

Today's Valencia live page was edited by George Bowden, Rebecca Seales, Nadia Ragozhina and Victoria Lindrea.

Our writers were Sarah Fowler, Malu Cursino, Olivia Otigbah and Tarik Habte.

Thanks for joining us.

Residents of the destroyed apartment block, their neighbours and eyewitnesses have all spoken of the speed and intensity of the blaze which completely gutted the 14-storey building in Valencia.

One man, Jose Cifre, told AFP the fire was ferocious and "spread immediately".

"In a matter of three or four hours it was all over...you could see people with their cell phone flashlights on their balconies."

According to Reuters, at least two people were rescued from their balconies by crane.

The fire broke out on the fourth floor of the apartment block at about 16:30GMT (17:30 local time) on Thursday.

Experts believe strong winds and highly flammable cladding on the building's exterior may have caused the fire's rapid spread.

The images below show how the buildings devastated by the fire looked prior to yesterday's tragedy, which killed at least 10 people - and how they look now.

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Mark Lowen
Reporting from Valencia

Blackened shells are all that remain of the two apartment blocks gutted by the fire.

I can see wisps of smoke smouldering from one, the stench of the fire still hangs in the air. Crowds have gathered here to take photos of the charred towers.

The fire began in the larger block, fourteen stories high. Fanned by high winds, there’s speculation about the type of cladding on the facades and what role it played in allowing the flames to spread so fast, engulfing the first building in minutes and then spreading to the adjacent one.

Firefighters battled the blaze for hours, while the hundreds of residents were evacuated.

Visiting the scene, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed solidarity with the families of the victims of the fire and promised resources.

There are reports that the type of cladding used on the facades was banned five years ago – but that no move was made to strip older buildings of its use, which is what Britain is now doing in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017.

The investigation will take time. For now, firefighters continue to pick their way through the inside of these buildings.

Image source, David

David, a British ex-pat who has lived in Valencia for more than two decades, drove past the apartment block as the fire was only just taking hold.

“I was taking my daughter to a dance class yesterday evening and there was gridlock at the roundabout where the building is situated. There was some smoke and I actually said, ‘With this wind, they’re going to have a job putting that fire out.'

“It was blowing a gale. You could almost not stand up straight it was so windy. It’s very open at this end of the city; it’s very flat Valencia.

“When I drove back from dropping my daughter off I had to drive up this very long avenue and there was thick, black smoke billowing across the city.

“I live about 400 metres from the building that caught on fire and all my colleagues on WhatsApp were asking me if I was okay because they could see the smoke from all over Valencia. It was blowing for miles, and miles and miles."

Image source, David

Speaking to reporters a little earlier, Valencia's government representative, Pilar Bernabé, confirmed forensic police had located the bodies of 10 victims inside the burnt remains of the residential block today.

She said a court in Valencia had started investigating the fire and what caused it and thanked the emergency services for all their efforts.

"They are working at a very difficult time...our love goes out to them."

Image source, AFP

Tarik Habte
Live reporter

A resident who lives close to last night's apartment block fire has told the BBC there's no smoke alarm fitted in her apartment.

Siena Swift, who lives just a short distance away in the same neighbourhood, said she only realised there was no alarm when she decided to check following Thursday's fatal fire.

"There's no smoke alarm or fire detector in my apartment. I think I'm going to go out today and get one," she told the BBC.

Siena, who moved to the Spanish city from the US last September as part of a teaching programme, said her fellow students also became concerned as news of the fire spread.

"There's 400 of us on this teaching programme in Valencia and we were messaging each other in our group chat, saying we don't have smoke detectors or fire extinguishers in our apartments."

Smoke alarm regulations in Spain vary based on building size and type of occupancy and so are not mandatory for all buildings.

Forensic police investigating the scene of the fire on Friday say they do not believe there to be any more missing people.

Earlier, Spanish media reports said there were as many as 15 people unaccounted for. Now forensic police, quoted by El Pais newspaper, say these individuals were either located alive or their bodies have been identified inside the building - and are included in the death count provided by officials earlier.

A father, mother, three-year-old child and newborn baby have been discovered today by police and firefighters, according to local media source El Pais.

The identities of the victims remain unclear but are included in the official death count.

Nearly 24 hours after fire ravaged a Valencia apartment complex, there has been no confirmation of how it started.

Residents and neighbours of the 14-storey apartment block in Campanar, on the city's west side, have all confirmed the rapid progress of the fire, which devastated the entire block within a matter of hours and has killed 10 people.

We know the fire broke out in an apartment on the fourth floor at around 17:30 local time (16:30 GMT) on Thursday.

Many eyewitnesses have confirmed that it was a windy afternoon in Valencia, with the Spanish weather service AEMET stating the port city was experiencing gusts of up to 60kmph (40mph) at the time. This may well have contributed to the ferocious trajectory of the blaze.

Image source, Reuters

Elsewhere, experts have linked the fire's rapid spread to the use of flammable cladding materials on the exterior of the building - although this remains unconfirmed.

An investigation into the blaze has begun. Although the building is still very hot, firefighters have been able to enter the lower floors and begin searching for the missing people

With up to 15 missing people still unaccounted for following the fire, three days of mourning has been declared in the city.

Meanwhile Spain's prime minister has promised the full support of the state - for both the victims, the rescue operation, and for any future investigation into the fire's cause.

Pope Francis is "closely following" news about the Valencia fire, according to a telegram sent to the Archbishop of Valencia, Enrique Benavent Vidal.

The Pope has assured "the people of Valencia and all the families of those affected of his spiritual closeness" and is praying for them all, Vatican News reports.

In the last few moments, the government delegate in Valencia has said the death toll from the building fire has risen to 10.

Image source, Getty Images

Crowds of locals have been gathering essential items such as clothing, food and toiletries for survivors who lost all their belongings in Thursday's devastating fire.

According to Las Provincias newspaper, the police have issued a notice to the public to send any donations to the parish church of Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer in Campanar neighbourhood - where the apartment block was located.

One woman, Natalia Barcelona, told Reuters she had donated medicine and sweets for children affected by the fire.

“I don’t even know anybody there but it breaks my heart,” she says.

Image source, Siena Swift

Mark Lowen
Reporting from Valencia

Image source, AFP via Getty Images

The charred shells of two adjoining buildings in the Campenar neighbourhood are all that remains after a fire engulfed them yesterday evening.

Wisps of smoke can still be seen coming out from the top of the ravaged apartment blocks.

This whole area has been closed off by police.

Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish prime minister, came here a little earlier. He has promised all the help and resources of the Spanish state to try to find out exactly what happened, with speculation already afoot about the cladding.

There are some reports that the type of cladding used was banned in 2019 because of its flammability.

But there was no programme to strip that cladding away after 2019 - which is what happened in the UK following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, where this process is still ongoing.

Investigations, of course, will follow, as Spain takes in the scale of this tragedy and tries to make sure that other buildings are not susceptible to the same catastrophe.

Ukrainian mother Gala Kotova, who spoke to us earlier, described her stress and fear as she realised she would have to rebuild her life yet again.

"I live alone with my child here, and I am the only person who can rebuild from scratch something that we just started to rebuild after we left Ukraine."

She said she got emotional seeing how quickly people had rallied to give support.

"There are lots of Ukrainians in Valencia and now there is already a group chat with 500 people who offered help.

"Escaping the war, trying to get away from it, the consequences are still catching [up with] us. [The fact that] we are strong enough to unite and to support each other, I was truly amazed with that."

Image source, AFP

We've heard from one Ukrainian mother who lived in the building with her young son. It appears they were far from the only Ukrainians there.

Slava Honcharenko, 31, told AFP news agency he knew several families who lived in the building who had since taken shelter in a hotel.

"We feel very bad. We know what it is when you lose your house because we experienced this two years ago in Ukraine," he said.

Another resident, Manuel, described how the building's doorman, Julián, had gone door to door warning neighbours they needed to get out.

"He is a little hero," the Campanar resident added.

He told Spanish media , externalit all happened in "a matter of 10-15 minutes".

Manuel rushed out of his building, without his documents or belongings, after alerting his mother and neighbours to the situation.

A local hotel gave shelter to him and his mother, alongside other residents who got out of the building safely.

"We are lucky. There are people who are calling their children and they don't answer their phone," he said.

A woman who was inside one of the apartment buildings when the fire started and managed to escape has told the BBC how she made it out with her son.

Gala Kotova is Ukrainian, and fled the war there two years ago.

"I was in the terrace speaking on the phone and I noticed the smoke. It was getting more and more intense."

She said she called the concierge, who didn't yet know about the fire, because her Spanish is not yet good enough to call the fire brigade.

She said she put on whatever she could find, grabbed her son and their passports, and ran out into the street.

"Everything was burning really fast, and the wind helped to spread the fire along the building."

Mark Lowen
Reporting from Valencia

Among those who watched the fires unfold was Loretta Calabrese, who lives on the fourteenth floor of an apartment block a few metres away. She tells me she was cooking when she saw black smoke billowing across the street.

“My husband and I came down to see it - and within minutes the whole building was on fire. It was so fast.”

She tells me of her fears that something similar could happen to her block. “I couldn’t sleep last night - I was thinking it could have been our building. And I live so high up that we would have been trapped.”

There is deep shock here at what happened - and that it could repeat elsewhere, on buildings with similar cladding still in place.

The death toll from the fire has now risen to five, according to Spanish media quoting the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community - which has started an investigation into the blaze.