Maite Jurado, the woman clinging to a plant in the middle of flooding in a town in Valencia: she was saved by the networks

THE DANA continues to wreak havoc in Valencia and other regions of Spain. The cold drop has caused destruction and flooding wherever it passes, endangering the lives of many citizens. One of them is Maité Juradoa woman who was trapped in a factory in the municipality of Paiporta (Valencia) but thanks to social networksemergency services They were able to save her before something bad happened..

It was her friend under the user @LausMt who, via her X account, alerted that Maite was stuck near a residential center. As she points out in her post: “She was trapped by water, clinging to a plant, and her car was swept away by the current, she is alone and doesn’t have much cover.” In the video she included in her post, Maite herself She was afraid of her situation and asked for help to be rescued..

Thanks to the tweet, which presented million and a half viewsthe authorities echoed their situation and Four hours later, @LausMt reported that Maite had already been rescued and was safe, thanking all the users who shared and supported his initial post.

Besides the case of Maite, the networks have been filled with posts in which people report the status of their trapped or missing loved ones due to the collapse of 112 calls.My 80-year-old grandfather and his dog are stuck in the upper part of her isolated townhouse,” user Bea Belenguer recounts in X. “There are 12 people, including my father and elderly people trapped.. They had to climb a building under construction because the water exceeds 2 meters,” says another Internet user on the networks, hoping that the emergency services will soon find a member of her family.

DANA hits Valencia

Maite was lucky her case went viral, activating the alarms of the authorities who were quick to search and rescue him.. All this before it’s too late. However, there exists many other citizens who have not had the same fortune. In the town of Letur in Albacete, the DANA left six missing while in Valencia already reports 51 deaths.

The storm did not calm down and there was incidents in up to four communities: Valencian Community, Castile-La Mancha, Region of Murcia or Andalusia. Indeed, in certain areas, according to the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the heavy rains have left more than 200 liters per square meter in just a few hours.

Valencia has been the worst-hit province, reporting 51 deaths so far. He the overflow of the Magro river caused devastation in Uriel while in Chivas the urban area is completely flooded and in Picanya a bridge has been washed away. THE scale of DANA led Civil Protection to activate, for the first time, the Mass alert on all cell phones in the province of Valencia For ask the population to avoid travel.