Apple to donate to Spain to ‘help with relief efforts’ after Valencia floods

In recent hours, Spain has been confronted with a DANA, described as the worst in history, which has caused devastating effects and floods in several regions of the country, notably in the Valencian Community and Castile-La Mancha. A storm which has already caused more than 100 deaths and hundreds of millions of losses and which puts cities like Castellón, Teruel and southern Catalonia on red alert. This also caused reactions in all sectors, including technology, as is the case with Apple.

The company based in Cupertino (United States) has confirmed that it will make a donation to Spain with the aim of “contribute to relief efforts on the ground”. Concretely, it was its CEO, Tim Cook, who communicated this measure via his X account, a social network formerly known as Twitter. A gesture of solidarity which is not unprecedented in the history of the company, which is frequently involved in humanitarian aid in the face of natural disasters.

“We are thinking of everyone affected by the devastating floods in the Valencia region of Spain. Apple will be donating to help with relief efforts on the ground,” Tim Cook said on his X account. At this time, the exact amount of their donation is unknown.but the truth is that currently any kind of contribution from the company or anyone will be of great help.

The announcement of the Apple boss, who visited Spain last year, was seen tasting the legendary Madrid stew of Lhardy or visiting Real Madrid players; It received a very good reception on the social network. So much so that even Elon Musk, CEO and owner of Tesla He did not hesitate to respond to Tim Cook’s publication with a “big”.

Apple also offers another type of crisis assistance: its iPhone smartphones, starting with the 14 series, come with features designed to save lives: accident detection and SOS calls – the latter are available on all models -, which can be activated from the settings, by going to the ‘SOS calls’ option. Other iPhone models even allow make satellite calls to emergency services.

While in some regions of Spain the National Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has indicated red alert; It should be noted that the regional government of Valencia (east), through the Emergency Coordination Center, sent this Thursday a new Es-Alert notice to the population, via mobile phonesto preventively inform them not to move.