The mayor of Riba-roja de Túria (Valencia), Robert Raga, explained this Sunday that the municipality is already seeing “the light at the end of the tunnel” and The situation is “normalizing” twelve days after the passage of DANAand has detailed that there are no “devastated” residential urban areas, although there is still serious damage in its industrial area.
Raga appeared this Sunday to update the information on the effects of DANA in this municipality. An intervention in which he insisted that “the answers are not easy at all” and, therefore, it must be act from “unity, dedicate ourselves to what we have to do”. “Political and responsible issues and all these things will come, but each person must be focused on recovering their municipalities,” he stressed.
The first mayor recalled that the municipality was affected on the one hand by the flooding in the Turia riverbed and, on the other hand, by the overflowing of the Chiva and Pozalet ravines, which have caused the greatest material damage.
Raga, who has stressed his solidarity with the victims of Riba-roja and the populations who are still “having it worse”, has pointed out that ““There are some doubts” about the number of fatalities in the town and the figure cannot be confirmed, because the ravines pass through several municipal areas.
However, he specified that “almost 100% of the deaths correspond to the area of the aforementioned ravines” and that there is no evidence of human losses in the industrial area due to the overflowing of the Túria.
Raga has indicated that Riba-roja has become a logistics center for distribute humanitarian and material aid to this and other affected localitieschanneled through the Generalitat and which has arrived from many parts of Spain. More than 150 companies from all over Spain are helping this and other municipalities with machinery or food, with Riba-roja as a logistics center.
The mayor has assured that in Riba-roja “all areas have access and mobility to access food points and supermarkets.”
Industrial area and companies
The mayor has detailed that there are five Local Police patrols deployed, with eleven agents in total, in the industrial area. The first mayor has stressed the importance of the recovery of this area “for the economic recovery, not only of Riba-roja but of the province of Valencia and the community”, with its 1,400 ships, 2,200 companies that have suffered “a brutal impact”, 20,000 workers and six million square meters.
There are 17 front loaders and other machinery, four trucks, four dumpers and eight containers working in the municipality. Likewise, he has reported that a new contract has been notified through Ivace to deploy more machinery to collect waste and transfer it to the plots intended for it.
Work is being done in various sectors and districts of the municipality, on accessibility and the different roads, also those intended for agriculture. An assessment has been carried out of all the ways to work on access to funds and subsidies from the Provincial Council, the Generalitat, the State and European institutions.
Raga has referred to the El Oliveral district, the smallest, where belongings have been removed and, together with firefighters and civil protection, four uninhabited homes that could not be accessed have been cleaned. Older people who lived in a home in this area were transferred on the second day after the tragedy to another residence where catering services have been provided. Sludge is being removed with tractors and streets are being washed.
In La Reva, temporary fencing has been installed on the chalets who lost theirs so that the plots are protected. Its streets are also washed in search of normality.
In the Advanced Command Post (PMA) located in the town, and which also coordinates actions for other municipalities, there are 670 units of the Military Emergency Unit deployed. 47 firefighters also work in eleven crews, we have 17 rescue teams and 22 Civil Guard agents.
Schools
In the education section, he explained that school services function “normally.” “We have worked a lot, especially with transportation in the northern area, because it was a complicated area, due to the distance and because we do not have a bridge. We pick up an average of 20 children daily from the residential La Reva, from the Municipal School; 82 children for kindergarten and primary school, in addition to nine students from the Colegio de la Asunción. In addition, we have a transport service deployment to pick up 390 secondary school students through the Generalitat Valenciana, plus eight that we also pick up from the Colegio de la Asunción,” explained Raga.
Municipal social services are processing four emergency aid and twelve accommodation requests, for which housing is being sought.
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