With more than 200 confirmed deaths (a figure that will rise in the near future as rescue teams clear areas), work in the worst-affected regions is focused on clearing streets of mud, cleaning debris, removal of vehicles and property flooding the roads. , but a lot of help is still needed.
One of the municipalities that is in this disaster zone zero is Aldaia, and its mayor, Guillermo Luján, assures that he is “very angry”. “We saw a document (published Friday by elDiario.es) in which it appears that the impact in Aldaia is ‘low’. How can you think the impact is small when the city has been devastated? “, said an upset Luján during a telephone conversation with this media.
Aldaia currently has six deaths according to official statistics, but there are reasonable suspicions that this figure will rise significantly: “Here we have the Bonaire shopping center and we have no idea what we are going to find in the parking lot, which is still completely flooded.
The mayor urgently asks for help, including machines: “We have people, hands, but we do not have machines, tractors or trucks; “We need the army”, and he insists that they do not feel that their situation is made visible, “compared to the situation of other populations, we are also devastated and no one feels abandoned” . Luján explains that he contacted the government, the Generalitat, the Provincial Delegation and the Valencia City Council, “and the response we received is that they will do everything possible.”
He appreciates the help he receives from neighboring towns, where help has come and is coming from, and from the mayor of Valladolid: “I don’t know how, but he contacted me and sent us a team of firefighters, but we still need a lot of help, especially machines.
“No one has seen how Aldaia is, they have not discovered how we are and we lack resources,” laments the first mayor, who affirms that he is “looking for a life, because we have had a catastrophic impact, with thousands of people. cars piled up on public roads and numerous remains in the street; It’s terrible.”
“First, focus on this; Then we will focus on continuing the work, because we will have to rebuild a new city,” concludes Luján.
