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On Tuesday, DANA in the Valencian Community devastated everything, including the lives of more than 140 people (data update Thursday afternoon) – three more died in Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia, where temporary workers, notably in Cádiz and Malaga – and dozens of people are missing in the province of Valencia, in Letur (Albacete) and in Cuenca. It left in its wake flooding, considerable material and personal damage and devastating images throughout the region and in other communities. It is already one of the worst natural disasters in recent decades in Spain and the worst cold spell of the 21st century.
Tuesday at 12:20 p.m., the National Emergency Coordination Center alerted of a worrying increase in water flow. At 1:00 p.m., the president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón (PP), came out to say that there was no danger and that at 6:00 p.m. there would be no danger. DANA will have calmed down in Valencia. At that time, the universal flood had already broken out. Mazón never came out again. The alarm from the Civil Protection of Valencia, dependent on its government, went off at 8:12 p.m., when thousands of people were already trapped. A year earlier, the Monzón government had decided to abolish the Valencian Emergency Unit. You can watch the program in video:
In this program we want to tell what happened and what is known so far, what went wrong in the management of this disaster, whether political and economic responsibilities can be pointed out, how are affected people. Laura Martinez, companion to the Valencia edition of our associated media ElDiario.es, with Rubén del Campo, spokesperson for the National Meteorological Agency AEMET and Pillar of Vera, general secretary of the Federation of Citizen Services of the Country of Valencia.
There have also been numerous complaints against companies forcing their employees to go to work despite extreme alarms and alerts, a problem we have Antonio Ruiz of the CNT Valencia. And we also talk about climate change and global warming and how they influence these types of extreme phenomena with colleagues from The climatethe magazine La Marea, a reference in matters of global warming and with Juan Borderajournalist specializing in climate change and deputy of the Valencian Courts for Compromís.
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