The National Emergency Center of the State (Cenem) yesterday activated the Junta de Castilla y León to send the necessary means to deal with the serious situation experienced in the Valencian Community after the floods caused by the passage of the DANA. The device left yesterday in convoy to the Levant province with the material and human resources that the Autonomous Administration already made available to Cenem last Thursday but which have not been requested until now.
Specifically, the Council’s Civil Protection and Emergency Agency sent three trailers with 12,000 kilos of equipmentwater and food, 71 motor pumps, 14,000 hygiene kits, 900 units of cleaning instruments, 500 shovels and 2,000 pairs of rubber boots. Plus they moved 15 professionalsincluding 12 technicians who make up the Emergency Coordination Center. All this equipment is accompanied by a work convoy made up of a forward command post, three vans of intervention equipment and operators from the Emergency Logistics Support Unit, ten trucks of various goods, 13 backhoe loaders and ten gondolas.
Likewise, according to regional government sources, Air, medical and psychological support were offeredwhich are waiting to be required, because they are not needed at the moment. An emergency coordination center of Castilla y León will be provisionally established in Paiporta, Valencia. Also a command post to organize the resources and for the relationship with the Valencia Emergency Center and with that of the State.
The Council coordinates the system in which, among other things, the Salamanca Provincial Councilwho sent six fire teams with 17 soldiers; the province of Soriawith seven vehicles and ten firefighters from the Provincial Council and members of the Municipal Council.
THE Valladolid Provincial Council It sent nine firefighters in four heavy forest pump vehicles, as well as extrication and equipment dragging teams. In addition to these resources, there are those which should soon arrive in the area. He Segovia City Hall She sent five firefighters, a 4×4 vehicle and equipment.
Regarding food solidarity aid and other elements of social support, the system is structured through provincial warehouses by municipalities, joined by Government subdelegations with what they receive in single provincial warehouses. Transport logistics are organized with XPO and a central logistics warehouse for Castilla y León has been opened in Valencia in the metropolitan area. The Commission will also be in charge of transport logistics from this warehouse to the final locations of arrival of the material.
