With more than 200 confirmed fatalities (a figure that will increase in the near future, as rescue teams clear areas), work in the most affected regions is focusing on cleaning the streets of mud, clearing debris, removing vehicles and belongings that flood the roads, but a lot of help is still needed.
One of the municipalities that are in that zone zero of the disaster is Aldaia, and its mayor, Guillermo Luján, assures that he is “very angry.” “We have seen a document (published on Friday by elDiario.es) in which it appears that the impact in Aldaia is ‘low’. How can you think that the impact is low when the town has been devastated?”, says an upset Luján in a telephone conversation with this medium.
Aldaia currently has six deaths according to official statistics, but there is a well-founded suspicion that this number will increase considerably: “Here we have the Bonaire shopping center and we have no idea what we are going to find in the parking lot, which is still completely flooded. ”.
The mayor urgently demands help, especially machinery: “We have people, hands, but we do not have machinery, tractors or trucks; “We need the Army,” and insists that they do not feel that their situation has been made visible, “with respect to how other populations are, we are also devastated, and no one feels abandoned.” Luján explains that he has contacted the Government, the Generalitat, the Provincial Council and the Valencia City Council, “and the response we have received is that they are going to do everything possible.”
He does appreciate the help he is receiving from neighboring towns, where help has come and is coming from, and from the mayor of Valladolid: “I don’t know how, but he contacted me and sent us a team of firefighters, but we still need a lot of help, especially machinery.”
“No one has seen how Aldaia is, they have not found out how we are, and we lack resources,” laments the first mayor, who maintains that he is “looking for a life, because we have had a catastrophic impact, with thousands of cars piled up on public roads and many remains in the street; It’s terrible.”
“First, focus on this; Afterwards, we will focus on continuing working, because we are going to have to rebuild a new town,” concludes Luján.
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