After the storm, solidarity always comes. An endless stream of people charged with buckets, shovels, brooms, mops, water jugs and shopping carts Full of food, they leave the city of Valencia on foot on Friday morning to help the municipalities most affected by the DANA stuck to the city.
For its part, the Emergency Department of the Generalitat Valenciana asked for “deep gratitude to the population for the help it provides to the affected populations” do not travel with vehicles in these areas, because “the access roads and emergency services cannot access it.
Thousands of people have left their homes since the early hours of this festive Friday and arrived by different means at the San Marcelino district from the city of Valencia and, from there, cross the bridge that joins the La Torre district to be distributed in the municipalities concerned: Sedaví, Alfafar, Paiporta, Picanya, Alba And Catarrojaamong others.
In fact, several people are trying to organize the “circulation” of this pedestrian bridge which crosses the V-30 and the new canal of the Turia river to reach places where devastation caused by last Tuesday’s water continues to wreak havoc.
In recent hours, people who live in these municipalities and who have been able to start communicating They asked for water, food, but above all tools like rakes, shovels and hoes, and “hands” with which to work and make the streets, which have become a real quagmire in recent hours.
Among those displaced to one of the areas most affected by DANA, there are many groups of young people, and others with tractors and heavy machinery have left for these southern municipalities of the city’s metropolitan area to help end the huge amounts of mud and sludge who have piled up in the basements, houses and streets of these communities which have more than 100,000 inhabitants.
This situation already occurred this Thursday afternoon, when hundreds of people loaded with food, water and shovels They crossed the pedestrian bridge that connects Valencia to its district of La Torre, the most affected in the capital by the DANA which devastated the province this week.
However, these hundreds of people There are now thousands And since dawn, the pedestrian path has been immersed in a continuous flow of people seeking to help during the biggest natural disaster Valencia has experienced in the last century, with at least 155 dead.
The Generalitat has activated a telephone number for assistance to relatives of missing persons: 900 365 112. The authorities ask that this telephone number be reserved solely to provide information on the relative who cannot be reached. For emergencies, the number is always 112.
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