Just as the expectations were a few days ago in the Bonaire Shopping Center, the news that came yesterday from the underground parking could not be better. By late Monday afternoon, although rescue teams were still bailing water, they already had full walking access to parking and they had not found any fatalities, sources close to the device acknowledge to ABC. Officially, the National Police announced on Monday at noon that they had found fifty cars, but no bodies inside. Late in the afternoon, after all day working in the area, Rafael Sancha, spokesperson for the Huelva fire brigade consortium, confirmed that in a new raid they checked all the vehicles in the facility that remained to be investigated and “they found nothing.” so they proceeded to mark them and discard them. Furthermore, the forensic experts who were waiting for a call in case their intervention was necessary have not been required, ABC confirmed yesterday at six in the afternoon.
The troops of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the Army sappers, together with firefighters from various parts of Spain who are searching for possible fatalities caused by DANA in the parking lot of the Valencian town of Aldaia, will continue with their task. since the waterspout caused the roof gave way of one of the ramps of a pedestrian access, so until it is completely ruled out that someone could be trapped, the outcome of the operation will not be officially communicated.
In the search for possible victims in this underground with two pedestrian accesses, five vehicle ramps and capacity for 1,800 seats, Divers, kayaks and drones have participated to carry out exhaustive reconnaissance work on the installation.
Target of hoaxes
On Monday, while the National Police guarded the work of the firefighters in the parking lot that has become in recent days the epicenter of the hoaxes of this tragedy, the firefighters were also busy in the basement of the Factory Bonaire, an area of the shopping center whose garage is used, above all, as a loading or unloading dock. With dozens of national and international cameras as witnesses, the troops deployed in the area inspected and removed three vehicles that they found, also empty, in a first raid. An excavator helped them remove the trash accumulated at the mouth of the dock and gain better access to this garage. There, however, late yesterday afternoon there was still a lot of water to be bailed out, at least one meter, according to the firefighters working in the area.
This news has surprised half the world, but not those who witnessed the disaster. That fateful afternoon, they explain, it was Tuesday and it was raining, so, at least in the Factory Bonaire area, “there was almost more workers than customers», they say. That night, those responsible for the evacuation of the center had about half an hour to direct everyone to the first floor, so one could think that the underground, despite the shocking images, were not going to be the “cemetery.” » that social networks predicted. Some, he says, even had time to leave the shopping center in their own vehicles.
Therefore, even they scandalize with hoaxes that circulate over the premises that on a material level, everything is devastated. It is enough to take a walk to discover, among the mud, remains of food, plastics and objects of all kinds dragged by the water, which covered one meter of the premises located on the ground floor. Yesterday, some merchants were still working yesterday to be able to save what has not been looted. Everything that was not wrapped in plastic is to be thrown away.
The Bonaire Shopping Center, one of the largest in Spain, soon confirmed that none of its workers were trapped by the rain discharged by DANA last Tuesday, October 29. In addition, the protocol for Bonaire, a shopping center located next to a boulevard, includes measures such as preventing access to the underground parking, which were applied that afternoon.
Work on the MN4
In addition to Bonaire, the troops working to find fatalities caused by DANA in Valencia are concerned about the state of the MN4 shopping center parking lot. in the town of Alfafaranother of the ground zero of the worst cold drop of the 21st century.
In this two-story underground and the same square meters as the Mestalla stadium, Pablo Lodeiro reports, early in the morning the firefighters were already able to access with their boats. The Madrid Municipal Police and divers from the Bilbao and Málaga fire departments also participate in the operation, displaced to join the rescue efforts in the Valencian municipality of Alfafar. A technical failure in the EMU water pump delayed the operation, but on the first floor of the basement, according to sources close to the operation, late yesterday no victims had yet been found.
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