The owners of Camping Las Fuentes de Letur and the El Cantero de Letur dairy company are holding their breath following the disappearance of two of their employees at DANA. More specifically, he is a cleaner of tourist facilities and an employee of the aforementioned organic cheese company. “They are a married couple aged approximately 36 and 35.“, deplores Santi Piquero, manager of Camping Las Fuentes.
“The water literally washed away his house. “When the couple was on the balcony, waiting for the emergency helicopter to rescue them,” underlines this worried hotelier. “The problem was that they started calling at half past one in the afternoon, but the helicopter took so long that the water washed away the house when they arrived to pick them up at five o’clock in the afternoon.
This marriage is part of the list of six missing people who left shock to the 929 inhabitants of this picturesque town of Albacetenestled in the Sierra de Segura, and whose urban center was swept away by an immense tongue of water, loaded with branches, stones and vehicles, which destroyed everything in its path, including the house of this poor couple ‘around thirty years.
“Their children were saved because they were in school“They couldn’t go out because of the downpour and now they are with a member of their family,” according to Santi Piquero, one of the five partners who invested 800,000 euros in Camping Las Fuentes, to reopen it. in March, after two years of closure. In fact, seven months ago they hired a local to take care of the cleaning facility which has 60 camper sites, 40 beds in a hostel and 4 rural houses.
“She finished her work day around one in the afternoon.“, as the manager of an establishment who woke up covered in mud and mud continues to explain. “Fortunately, this Tuesday we had no customers. “One of the last groups of guests was composed of scout from Mula with many children arriving from the Region of Murcia.
The force of the water swept away several houses in Letur (Albacete)
– Do you think the marriage was able to survive?
-Santi Quesada: We hope they caught something because they are two young and agile people.
– What condition is the campsite in after DANA?
– The infrastructure was damaged in the lighting system and pipes, exactly where we had to invest to renovate the facilities before reopening them. Everything is full of mud and access is blocked. But the strongest is in town.
A Civil Guard source details to EL ESPAÑOL that Search continues to find the 6 people missing in Letur. At present it is known that one is the cleaning lady of the campsite, another is her husband, employed at the Cantero de Letur, and two others are municipal employees. “The two City Hall employees were swept away by the flood when it swept away a woman,” according to the aforementioned Benemérita source. “Several houses collapsed due to the force of the water.”
This town of Albacete, considered one of the most beautiful in Spain, known throughout the country for the LeturAlma festival promoted by the singer Rozalén, was devastated this Tuesday by a tsunami urban water, due to its location on a hill and the presence of the so-called Rambla de Las Canales which crosses it from one end to the other. “The rambla has become a river“, as Santi Quesada, from Camping Las Fuentes, sadly confirms.
-How do you live the day after such a disaster?
– The truth is that I don’t know how to deal with what happened. First, you have to believe in it, and then, you have to see how you can help the city. For the moment, we have offered to the Letur Town Hall our accommodation for those affected.
