One day after the DANA terror, the search for the missing continues, now exceeding a hundred. At least 104 people have died, and the damage is countless with roads cut off and areas isolated by water, mud and landslides. The victims in the city of Valencia amount to 13, almost all of them in the district of La Torre, as reported by Mayor María José Catalá. In total, nine fatalities were found on Thursday morning, adding to the four bodies previously located in the district of La Torre, in Valencia. Among the seven people who have lost their lives in the garage is a Local Police agent.
Due to the situation, the Government has mobilized more than 1,000 troops from the Ministry of Defense, the Military Emergency Unit and the Spanish Armed Forces, to help in the rescue and cleanup efforts of all affected populations, specifically in Valencia and Castilla. -The Mancha.
“The priority is to find the victims”
For his part, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, announced this Thursday an express aid line of 250 million euros that can be expanded. The Generalitat Valenciana has already contacted the president of the European Commission to convey the request to access aid from the community Solidarity Fund to mitigate the damage caused by DANA that devastated the province of Valencia this week.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, clarified today upon his arrival in Valencia that “the priority is to find the victims” and the Member States “have stepped up, are asking for and offering resources to respond as effectively as possible to this tragedy.” .
Dart from Page to Mazón
Emiliano García Page, president of the Board of Communities of Castilla-La Mancha, has taken advantage of his visit to Mira (Cuenca) to throw a dart at Mazón, in which he has assured that “there are politicians who take the photo, but beforehand they “What they did was fire and cut emergency services.” «We can safely say that we have many more emergency and care personnel today than we had eight years ago. “It is not to establish any comparison, but it is important,” said the president of La Mancha.
Presumably Page is referring here to the suppression of the Valencian Emergency Unit, but the Generalitat has clarified: “it was just another fictitious organization, with zero more firefighters, zero more material resources and zero efficiency.”
Furthermore, around 12:00 in the morning, Valencia received a new alert from Civil Protection, in which the population was asked to avoid traveling in order to facilitate emergency work. The notice states: “Civil Protection Alert in the province of Valencia: In order to allow emergency professionals to work, the need to avoid traveling on the roads is recalled, as agreed by CECOPI.”
The DANA unleashes its fury on Castellón
The DANA, despite leaving the skies of Valencia without rain, has unleashed all its fury on Castellón, a province where the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has raised the alert to red level, of “extreme danger.” Very intense rainfall may accumulate 180 liters per square meter in twelve hours. In fact, in Andalusia the reservoirs have had to release water because, due to the DANA rainfall, they accumulated 180 cubic hectometers. The Generalitat has asked the inhabitants of Castellón to remain in high areas to stay safe.
A man collects the rubble of an affected home in Castellón
The consequences of DANA continue to affect the roads of half of Spain, the majority of the secondary network. This Thursday, the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) asked drivers not to circulate in the province of Valencia, Castellón, the southern area of Tarragona and the western area of Cádiz due to the worst DANA of the century.
Likewise, the DGT has requested not to travel to the province of Valencia during the Todos los Santos long weekend. The A-3 and A-7 remain closed, as does traffic on the high-speed line that connects Valencia and Madrid will remain suspended, at least until Sunday, November 3.
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