He Home Officeat the request of the Generalitat Valenciana, has activated the Civil Protection Mechanism of the European Union and has requested one hundred high-capacity pumping equipment and fifty technical assistance experts and support to intervene in the Valencian regions affected by the DANA.
The purpose of the application is strengthen the teams who on the ground are already working on emptying high-density sludge in garages and sewers, cleaning roads or recovering water treatment plants, Interior reported in a statement.
Likewise, the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Ministry of the Interior, which has activated this mechanism, has asked the European Union to send means for cleaning, recovery and waste treatment such as construction containers, dump trucks, sweeping vehicles, mini backhoes, pump trucks, cranes and platforms.
Spain activated the European collaboration system in the face of emergencies for the first time in 2009when aerial means and forestry brigades were requested to cope with a wave of forest fires.
Later, this European mechanism was activated during the COVID-19 pandemic. covid-19 on different occasions to receive shipments of masks or to evacuate Spanish citizens from Mozambique and from different South American countries.
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