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Torrential rains flood Cadaqués and drive around thirty cars onto the rambla

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Around thirty vehicles were swept away this morning by water on a boulevard in Cadaqués, in the Alt Empordà region, in Girona, where the pre-alert was activated due to the forecast that rain would fall could accumulate 100 liters per square meter. in 24 hours.

Firefighters from the Generalitat of Catalonia reported that the flood, which caused no injuries, occurred at 3:54 a.m. and that the vehicles swept away were piled up under a bridge and did not reach the sea. Two fire crews rushed to the scene.

This is the only intervention by firefighters in this area due to last morning’s storms, although in neighboring Baix Empordà they have received eight calls since 3 a.m., mainly due to flooding in houses private, without any injuries.

Civil Protection reported that it maintains the pre-alert of the flood emergency plan, Inuncat, activated in Alt and Baix Empordà, due to the observation and accumulation of rain, which may reach 100 liters per square meter in 24 hours.

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