José Javier Vicent Fas and his daughter Susana Vicent Vidal They decided to go to Pedralba to spend a few days to take advantage of the Todos los Santos bridge and be able to disconnect from the daily routine. They live in Valencia along with Susana Vidal, wife and mother, who contacted them for the last time on Tuesday, October 29 at 6:00 p.m. via WhatsApp: “They told me that a lot of water was passing in front of the house.”
Susana Vidal attends ABC with enough force so that eight days after beginning the desperate search for her relatives, she does not stop. In the town, where they have a small house In a scattered area close to the ravine, they do not stop trying. “People who don’t know me at all are helping us and that gives us strength,” he points out.
According to the mother and wife, José Javier and Susana contacted her by phone call on October 29 at two in the afternoon. In that conversation they talked about how they were feeling and about the bad weather, since it had already started to rain, but none of them imagined what would come next. Around 6:00 p.m., he received a WhatsApp from her husband in which she warned him of the enormous amount of water that was passing in front of their house.
Thus, two hours later, he tried to contact them again with messages and calls but no longer received any response. «In this area it is difficult to have coverage», he warns. However, the next day, he became aware of what was happening after beginning to see the stream of residents of the La Torre district, in Valencia, where he works, and increased the frequency of communications, all of which were fruitless.
It occurred to her to call her Scottish neighbors, owners of a chalet located above hers, to ask them if they had seen her husband and daughter. They approached the house, they shouted the names of José Javier and Susana but no one answered. The cars were not and the doors were wide open.
“We think that the water could have taken them out of the house and dragged them away,” says the mother. Members of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) arrived two days later with dredging tools, dogs and drones and inspected the house and the surrounding area from top to bottom, in addition to neighborhood help. «The water touched the ceiling ten centimeters high.», says the woman who is helped by her nieces to continue the search also on social networks.
Archive image of Susana with her husband and daughter
Susana cries out so that the search for both relatives is not forgotten and, at the same time, asks for help for the La Torre Occupational Centerwhere his daughter Susana worked, where they do “great work” with more than 70 users with different types of disabilities and who “have lost everything.”
«We are left with the four walls and we have rescued the chairs. We need financial help because we have to change the doors that have swollen, the exterior gates, rebuild the wall and on top of that we have lost the three adapted transport vans,” explains the director of the center Gloria Cubillos.
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