Mazón insists that municipalities will not be evacuated and that there is no risk of further overflows

The regional leader, in a new public appearance made at 1:30 p.m. after the last meeting of the Integrated Operational Center (CECOPI), insisted on following the official channels of the Generalitat and avoid falling for “hoaxes”.

Thus, he confirmed that there was no forecast of new overflows in the municipalities most affected by DANA in Valencia and indicated that there was no evacuation order for towns like Paiporta or Picanya. In the same spirit, Mazón defended the need to “fight a new enemyhoaxes that hamper not only information and communication tasks, but also the troops themselves.

Likewise, he reiterated that the telephone number of 112 did not fall, nor did the care of the families of the victims 900365112. “We must insist that both are active and functioning perfectly,” emphasized the Valencian president.

For the moment, the provisional death toll remains at 62 people and stressed that the coordination of the operation between agents of different organizations, authorities and institutions works at the highest level.

Regarding relief operations, troops working in the system deployed in the province of Valencia due to the storm are moving by land to “access all victims and begin to restore basic infrastructure”.

“The main thing is to stop the rescue and leave the roads clear so that everything can circulate,” said the chief inspector of the Valencia Fire Department. Jose Miguel Bassetas well as ensuring that troops try to work “as quickly as possible”.

As the fire chief explains, the operation is “completing its first phase” with the intervention of aerial means equipped with rescuers to access “all people stuck in the communities, especially those visible”.

They have six air assets equipped with rescuers, including three who came Aragon, Murcia and Madrid-, accompanied by six helicopters responsible for logistical tasks, with the aim of “reaching the whole world”.

Ground deployment

Currently, the second phase of “land deployment”in which both the troops of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) and the three provincial fire consortia of around 200 soldiers participate.

These troops are moving by land to “access all victims and begin to restore basic infrastructure”, with the collaboration of “all electricity, water and gas companies”. “We are trying to restore them as quickly as possible,” stressed the inspector.

In addition, it is planned incorporation of more military battalionsthree are already in operation and the arrival of two others is expected. All these resources will be distributed to all affected areas. In general, the “main problem” of the troops is the availability of light so that air assets can continue to fly, while being aware of “the real scale of everything that is happening”. The inspector hopes to soon have the “whole scenario” to refine the work even further.

For her part, the government delegate of the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, assured that the number of deaths is “terrible” and “tears apart all Valencians and also all of Spain”. “This is what is being transmitted to us from all over Spain and practically throughout the world,” he said.

A “horrible” figure

For her part, the government delegate of the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, assured that the number of deaths is “terrible” and “tears apart all Valencians and also all of Spain”. “This is what is being transmitted to us from all over Spain and practically throughout the world,” he said.

Bernabé reported that once the procedure for multiple victims was launched, the Government made itself available to the Generalitat to reinforce, from this Thursday, the number of forensic doctors to “help in all identification tasks “corpses.

The Central Executive also made available to the Autonomous Administration the Scientific Police and scientific experts of the State Security Forces to work “in a coordinated manner” with those responsible for the Institute of Legal Medicine in this “ desire for permanent coordination” between the Government and Generalitat which guaranteed that it would continue “in all areas”.

At the same time, the delegate specified that the strengthening of the Military Emergency Unit will also be maintained (EMU) and the Armed Forces, which have so far mobilized some 1,000 soldiers as well as more than 200 material resources to strengthen “both the relief efforts and the opening of roads and highways to reach municipalities where there are no has no accessibility.

To them, he said, 750 agents of the Civil Guard and 1,700 of the National Police, both from the province of Valencia and other provinces, to “collaborate in the work of care, rescue assistance and ‘support of the judicial authorities’.

Bernabé indicated that the air resources mobilized by the armed forces will be increased, given that access to certain localities is “complex”. At this point, he stressed the need to “let the emergency services work” on the roads so that they can “clear them and generate exit routes for vehicles that need to get to work and intervene in case emergency”.

Communication zone and disaster

He also warned that there are many areas of the province of Valencia without coverage, without electricity and without communication and recognized: “We are very aware that this generates anxiety and insecurityalso that there is a part of the lack of communication that does not allow us to have knowledge of the information that we want to have about people who are in areas where there is no type of coverage.

Finally, he thanked the work of the state security forces and bodies and the local police, as well as the rest of the emergency professionals for their work. Asked about the declaration of the Community as a catastrophic zone, the delegate recalled that this is a usual procedure which already was stated “in much smaller situations“.