ALBACETE.- This weekend, Letur, the Albacete town devastated by DANA, appears the same as always at its entrance, even with tourism, but as you move towards ground zero, the hugs, the unshed tears, the muddy uniforms and volunteers.
The people move between two objectives that lead to the same feeling, helplessness. On the one hand, Letur needs his five neighbors, who have been wanted since Tuesday, to appear.
On the other hand, it needs to recover that aspect of a movie town, with the charm that its natural pools and the flow of water through each of its most emblematic corners gave it.
As soon as you move from the entrance of the municipality to the school – now converted into a command center for rescue and reconstruction operations – Letur becomes a hive of vehicles, uniformed troops, neighbors with shovels covered in mud and the regret of those who They stop, talk and cry of helplessness because those five neighbors, whom everyone knew, still do not appear.
The activity does not stop in this town of just 926 inhabitants. From the Civil Guard dogs, who search tirelessly; to the Red Cross teams, which serve professionals and volunteers; or the singer María Rozalén, who has returned to her town and is now sweeping and distributing food.
The neighbors They ask that Letur not fall into oblivionthat the search does not stop – so far only the body of a 92-year-old woman has been found – nor the help in the recovery tasks of what was swept away by the flood. In fact, this Saturday, the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, has committed to both requests.
At the moment, there is no shortage of hands in Letur, but, as the Red Cross psychologists say, while the town is rising, it will also have to face the emotional consequences of the impotence of a flood that, on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 29, when not even It was raining, it devastated the old area and took six residents.
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