On Wednesday October 30, Mediaset España lifted Jorge’s diary so that the team AfternoonAR could make a special broadcast to report on the scale of the disaster caused by the DANA in Spain, mainly in the Valencian Community. Ana Rosa Quintana interviewed Fátima live, a young woman from Turís who is looking for her missing friend whose roof collapsed while he was talking to her on the phone: “He had to run because cracks were appearing in his house and, during the video call, it appears that the roof started to collapse.. “We haven’t been able to contact him, all the relatives are trying to contact him and are searching, but we don’t know anything.” A moving testimony but it was not the only one. A neighbor from Paiporta, Valencia, who lost his wife and baby, also spoke for the Telecinco space. Quintana also reported that the previous evening, the journalist of AfternoonAR, Manu Lajarinhad to be helped by some residents of Alcudia with whom he spent the night.
The tragic consequences of the passage of DANA (a system of low pressure or depression at high levels of the atmosphere) has so far caused at least 95 deaths, according to the Integrated Operational Coordination Center of the Ministry of the Interior. The Valencian Community was the region most affected by the devastating consequences of a storm that flooded several municipalities. Likewise, the testimonies of those affected were shocked by the harshness of the situation. Many of these stories were recorded on Wednesday, October 30 in a special AfternoonAR.
Fátima: “My friend called me to tell me that his house was collapsing”
Fátima, a young woman from Turís who could not hold back her tears throughout the connection, spoke for the Telecinco program, explaining how she saw live how a friend’s house fell on her.
The young woman, in tears, told Ana Rosa Quintana what had happened: “Yesterday my best friend called me on a video call and he had to run because cracks were appearing in his house, And In the video call it appears that the ceiling is starting to fall… shortly after he called me back to tell me that his house was collapsing and that he needed to evacuate as best he could. he could.“.
“He went to a friend’s house, but we couldn’t contact him, all the relatives We try to contact him and search, but we don’t know anything“, declared the very worried interviewee.
Ana Rosa requested more detailed information to be able to help further:»His name is Rafael Valero, he lives in Utiel, he is 40 years old… I didn’t see her leave her house, her phone just rang as she was going downstairs… She told me she was going to another friend’s house, but we don’t know if she is safe or not , and we are all very worried. “Maybe Rafael will be somewhere. If we have any information, don’t doubt that we will call you,” Ana Rosa told him.
Toni’s heartbreaking testimony: his wife and baby disappeared
Ana Rosa also connected with Toni, a resident of PaiportaValencia, who lost his wife and baby due to DANA which devastated several regions of Spain “Tell me how we can help you”, asked the presenter and Toni, very nervous and visibly desperate, replied: ” Now I’m going to the City of Justice, I’m going to take a taxi, because they tell me that they can give me information there. The truth is that the telephone numbers that tell us that we can call, I. I called the police, the Civil Guard… it is impossible to have information on where they are, if they are.
The person concerned described how the events had happened and When did he lose contact with his wife and baby?: “After doing some shopping, when we got home, there was a big commotion, they told us that the ravine was overflowing, we went, in 15 minutes, from dry ground to having five feet of water . I managed to get out of the car and when I tried to take the baby out, the current carried me away and I tripped over something. “The car went the other way and I saw my wife and the baby asking for help from the roof, but I didn’t see any more.”
A journalist from ‘TardeAR’, rescued
Ana Rosa Quintana herself, at the beginning of the program, recounted something that had happened the previous evening with a TardeAR worker: “Yesterday you saw our colleague Manu Lajarin that the wind was blowing and he worked until the last moment, so much so that he was among those affected, thank God a neighbor helped him. There was a waterspout and he had to get out of the car he was in. A neighbor helped them spend the night. “He threw mattresses on the floor so he could sleep.”.
