At least one tourist dead after massive fire nearly destroys Caribbean resort, 1,690 evacuated

At slightest 1 Italian tourer is dormant with respective much injured aft a monolithic occurrence successful the Dominican Republic edifice municipality Bayahibe connected Friday.

The deceased woman, 46-year-old Italian nationalist Francesca Valentino, died astatine the resort's Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel, according to the Dominican Republic's Directorate of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Services (DAEH).

At slightest 9 different radical were treated for injuries, with 3 of those taken to off-site aesculapian facilities, DAEH said successful a statement.

Authorities evacuated 1,690 tourists from the fashionable edifice town, The Associated Press reported, citing section authorities.

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A drone presumption shows a occurrence astatine the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel successful Bayahibe, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic, June 19, 2026 successful this surface drawback obtained from societal media video. (Gojko Culibrk/via REUTERS)

Aerial video of the blaze showed fume billowing from galore beachside buildings, with ample grey plumes of fume casting acheronian shadows connected the beach's turquoise waters.

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Authorities reported that "preliminary observations bespeak that the occurrence dispersed rapidly owed to the flammable quality ​of parts of the extortion structures made of palm, arsenic ​well arsenic upwind conditions," according to Reuters.

A drone presumption shows a occurrence astatine the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel successful Bayahibe, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic, June 19, 2026 successful this surface drawback obtained from societal media video. (Gojko Culibrk/via REUTERS)

Guests were moved to different hotels, specified arsenic the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Palace, a adjacent edifice tally by the aforesaid operators arsenic the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel. The Palace did not prolong immoderate damage, according to Reuters.

Police officers run pursuing a occurrence astatine a Viva Dominicus edifice successful Bayahibe, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic, June 19, 2026, successful this inactive taken from a societal media video. (Junito Mieses/via REUTERS)

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"Tourist activities ​in Bayahibe and the surrounding country stay unaffected ​and ⁠continue to instrumentality spot safely and arsenic normal," the Dominican Republic's Emergency Operations Center (COE) besides noted.

Video of the aftermath shows a drone spraying h2o connected a charred and destroyed artifact of buildings arsenic the structures proceed to smolder.

Fox News Digital contacted DAEH, COE and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts for further comment.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.