More than 30 volunteers left this Monday for Valencia, to help those affected by the DANA that has left, for the moment217 officers died, hundreds were injured and missing and chaos occurred in a large part of the municipalities in the southern part of the city.
Volunteers make up different public service professions, and are made up of 17 Local Police from Santander, 6 firefighters from the capital, 3 Local Police from Camargo, as well as 4 nurses, 1 psychologist and 1 cook. This is a personal action by professionals, outside their work obligations and without the official coverage of city councils or regional governments.
In the procession, which has left Penacastillo Early this afternoon, a caravan of vans can be seen with material collected and with which the volunteers seek to help alleviate the damage caused after the passage of DANA, which has devastated the autonomous community with a severity much greater than usual .
30 FIREFIGHTERS AND 14 VOLUNTEERS ALREADY LEFT THIS WEEKEND
This weekend, Cantabria already sent the first troops deployed by the regional governmentbut also voluntarily. It is about 30 regional firefighters and 14 municipal volunteers, who are collaborating in the work of bailing, releasing and clearing debris in different points affected by this tragedy. In total, the troops mobilized during the weekend have traveled firefighters from Santander, Torrelavega, Castro Urdiales and Camargoin addition to volunteers from the Reinosa Group, who have joined the Command Post that the Generalitat Valenciana has in Alzira.
DESTINATIONS
The seven SEMCA firefighters have already been assigned to bailing work in Algemesí and, for their part, the six forest firefighters from the General Directorate of Forestsalong with the municipal volunteers displaced on Saturday, are in the Salvador Allende neighborhood of Alcudia also carrying out bailing workreports the Cantabrian Executive in a statement. On the part of Santander firefighters, three firefighters have traveled with a light vehicle and equipped with four electric pumps, current generators and bilge material, tools and personal protective equipment.
Furthermore, they have moved five firefighters from Torrelavega with a pick-up vehicle, three electric pumps, two motor pumps and a bilge pump; three firefighters from Camargo with a multi-task rescue van vehicle, with different types of pumps, extrication material and other materials that may be necessary; and six firefighters from Castro Urdiales with two vehicles and a high-flow bilge pump.
In addition, they have mobilized municipal groups of Civil Protection volunteers from Reinosa, Corvera de Toranzo, Los Corrales de Buelna, Santa María de Cayón-El Astillero, Castro Urdiales and Villaescusa. In total, 14 volunteers have traveled with seven vehicles, 13 motor pumps, seven electric pumps, nine generators, a proto-aid, a light tower, a heater and logistics and communications material for the teams. In addition, there is another team of 3 firefighters from Camargo prepared and waiting for them to return to take over in Valencia.
OFFICIAL HELP
In Cantabria, The collection of essential products continues in civic centers and town halls throughout the community, after the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) made a call to action. The Government, after meeting with the Government Delegation and the Federation of Municipalities of Cantabria (FMC), has announced that they calculate that the products collected could be ready to be sent at the end of this week.
Likewise, this Monday it was confirmed, in turn, the death by Sixto Delgado Domínguez, pastry chef from Torrelavega, and the only Cantabrian victim known at the moment in the tragedy. Delgado worked his profession and lived in the affected area of the province of Valencia.
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