Disabled at three o’clock in the afternoon this Friday red warning for rain and storms on the coast of Huelva and has been reduced to orange until midnight in the evening. It also maintains the orange level due to rain in the regions of Aracena, Andévalo and Condado, and yellow for storms, according to the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Thus, the 112 emergency service of Andalusia indicated in a press release that the flooding of streets, basements, ground floors of houses and establishments Most cases are taken care of at the Emergency Coordination Center (Cecem 112), mainly in the capital Huelva and in cities like Cartaya, Aljaraque and Punta Umbria; although cases have also been recorded in Ayamonte, El Cerro del Andévalo, Isla Cristina, La Nava, Lepe, Lucena Del Puerto or Palos De La Frontera, among others.
Among the incidents monitored are two slopes on the HU-6100, kilometer 1, in El Cerro del Andévalo, as well as on the HU-9104, in La Nava, as well as flooding in the Urbasur urbanization of Isla Cristina and other points in this municipality.
Aemet predicts that on the coast of Huelva the precipitation accumulated in 12 hours was 140 liters per square meter, and it is estimated that the rains will continue with “great intensity” in the alert zone “over the next few hours”. Furthermore, the Foral Delegation indicated that municipalities like Aljaraque recorded 150 liters per square meter, and that “similar circumstances” occurred in Cartaya, Gibraleón and Punta Umbria.
Children isolated in a country house
For its part, the Provincial Consortium of Huelva firefighterswhich has kept the parks active with reinforcements since Thursday afternoon in the face of successive warnings of heavy rain due to the passage of DANA through the province, witnessed 58 incidents in just over twelve hours, with the West Coast and the metropolitan area being the areas most affected by flooding due to strong storms, and have resolved the incidence of 20 children isolated in a country house from Punta Umbria because the access road is impassable.
Precisely in the metropolitan area, in Aljaraque, the Punta Umbría firefighters carried out the saving a neighbor in the middle of the night -when the Aemet maintained the red notice in this band- who took refuge in the roof of your housewhen trapped by the high water level. The intervention took place at 5:04 a.m. this Friday, with the intervention of three agents and two vehicles.
The firefighters were confronted floods all night of streets, with partial damage to garages and homes, road cleaning due to sludge, water drainage and road inspections in some municipalities.
Thus, they had to intervene in the removal of stones and mud in Calañas; in the cleaning of a road in La Nava after the partial detachment of a hillside; in the water drainage of the streets of Aljaraque, with garages and some houses partially affected, as well as in the area of El Rincón, works that they also had to face in Gibraleón and in the garage area of a Cartaya hotel establishment.
In Punta Umbria and Isla Cristinatroops also had to intervene due to flooding and carry out inspections in premises and garages. Since the afternoon of last Thursday and until 10 a.m. this Friday, the firefighters Valverde del Camino, Jabugo, Punta Umbria, San Juan del Puerto and Ayamonte to respond to rain-related emergencies that have occurred.
He The Andalusian Emergency Group (GREA) remains deployed in the Delegation of the Government of the Junta in Huelva as the nerve center of coordination in this province in case it is necessary, in addition, to immediately deploy a command post at any point in the province. The deputy director of Emergencies is also present as director of Emergencies and head of the Civil Protection Service of Andalusia, alongside her provincial namesake.
Almonte local police Several entrances and two streets of El Rocío were cut off because they had become “impassable” due to the passage of the DANA through Huelva. As the police indicated on their social media accounts consulted by Europa Press, Villamanrrique and Muñoz y Pavón streets in the village of Almonteña were closed, as well as the accesses that cross the Caño stream.
Likewise, in Almonte, the accesses that cross the Santa María stream -Camino de La Cerca- and the accesses that cross the Moriana stream and the Regajo de los Serranos -Camino de Los Serranos-.
More than 1,700 incidents across Andalusia
Regarding Andalusiathe Council maintains the emergency phase activated, operational situation 1, of the Emergency Plan for Flood Risks. Since the storm began last Monday, 112 people have already participated. 1,793 emergencies: 524 in Cádiz, 479 in Malaga, 224 in Granada and 221 in Sevillewhere this Friday morning a stream overflowed and part of a retaining wall fell under the AP-4, between kilometers 38 and 39, in Las Cabezas de San Juan (SE). The rest of the incidents were distributed between Almería with 152, Huelva with 117, Jaén with 51 and Córdoba with 34.
