Army helicopters are flying over Valencia to participate in the macro operation in the affected areas. With the arrival of numerous soldiers, work was accelerated and improved in the communities affected by the DANA.
Already on the ground, a regiment of marines works with rakes, shovels and brushes clean the thick accumulated mud. A mud that they are removing while the EMU troops lift it with pipes.
In Chiva, the machines of the engineering regiment clear the roads. “Highlight the important and immense logistical support that we have received, as well as the support of the civilian population and other units of the Armed Forces,” said Senent Domínguez, lieutenant of the Army Engineer Regiment.
In Paiporta, the military Vehicles blocking access are evacuated using cranes to buildings and streets. They also do it in Algemesí, where they arrived early in the morning. “Our work mainly consists of facilitating access to the main roads of the city and removing all the goods and debris of civilian personnel from their homes,” explains María del Carmen García Cuadrado, lieutenant of the Army Specialty Regiment.
Soldiers who were also deployed to Masanasa. “Our task is to facilitate the main access to the homes, as well as to facilitate access to the avenue itself to then be able to bring trucks and be able to deliver materials,” explains Lieutenant Iván Barrantes Simón.
Sappers are also operating in Torrent, many of whom left last night from this Alcantarilla air base, in Murcia. Others, members of the Navy, did it on a Galician ship docked at the Rota base, in the interior, with trucks and personnel equipped as if to go to war.
A battle that they are leading today with volunteers against the devastation of a DANA that will be impossible to forget.
