The video of the rescue, which went viral on social networks thanks to the expertise of the rescuers, shows how a firefighter lifts the baby in his arms towards a helicopter. Below them, all that remains is desolation: we only see water and plants.
According to a press release from the Consortium published on social networks, firefighters evacuated 20 isolated people after flying over the areas of Albufera, Paiporta, Torrent and Riola.
Yesterday we were able to achieve #cpba several search and rescue flights with our rescue team. We flew mainly over the areas of Albufera, Paiporta, Torrent and Riola, being able to evacuate up to 20 people.#stillsatulated pic.twitter.com/Zy338HedKN
– Alicante Provincial Firefighters Consortium (@BomberosDipuALC) October 31, 2024
Emergency services also deployed canine units help to find people missing due to floods. Concretely, they mobilized six endowments to help the Valencia firefighters. In addition, this Wednesday, four heavy rural pumps (BRP) and 12 firefighters from the parks of Dénia, Benidorm, Cocentaina and Elda were mobilized, as well as an Alpha 01 helicopter and a rescue group.
Alert in Castellón
The Valencian Generalitat launched this Wednesday a mobile alert of civil protection Es-Alert to the population, to ask the inhabitants of Castellón “to stay at home in high areas” and “if they are outside, to take shelter in high points”, as well as not to travel on the roads. In this province, the red rain alert is activated throughout the coast and in the north of the province, with cumulative precipitation forecast in 12 hours of 180 mm.
Hundreds of people are already affected by the first floods that cross the streets of Castellón and threaten to continue growing and destroy everything in their path as happened in Valencia. “That I had to take an hour by bus to go to class because they didn’t suspend my classes and that I had to go through here (Avenida Valencia in Castellón) and that once here they canceled my UJI classes at the last minute “It seems incredible,” reported an Internet user on her social networks, also attaching a video showing the major floods that the city’s streets are already experiencing.
