The rain left more 600 incidents managed by the Emergency Coordination Center. Despite the large volume, there were no signs of injuries. In the early morning, the alerts were concentrated in the province of Almería (141), particularly in the municipality of El Ejido, with heavy hail. Throughout the morning, the storm front moved from east to west and caused incidents in the northern area of the province of Granada (120) and in Malaga (291).
The storm has so far affected to a lesser extent the provinces of Jaén (16), Cádiz (14), Córdoba and Seville (both with 11). The opinions mainly referred to house floodingground floors, basements, garages, as well as collapses and falls of branches and trees and movement of street furniture, as well as requests for help due to blocked vehicles and traffic incidents due to puddles on the road.
The heavy rains also affected the region’s communications network. By rail, the rail service was assigned to the Álora station (Málaga) in a train that made the Seville-Málaga journey. It was restored at 2:00 p.m. At the Gobantes de Antequera station, another medium-distance train, whose passengers continue the journey by bus, in addition to a service interruption in Calahorra (Granada).
At 12:23 p.m., Adif reported the derailment of an AVE in Álora in the Casablanca sectionat the height of the viaduct, with 291 passengers, without any trace of injuries at the moment. A train mobilized from Los Prados took charge of the passenger transferaccording to sources from the Railway Infrastructure Administrator, who indicated that traffic was reactivated at 3:00 p.m.
The road network was also affected with cuts and incidents on around thirty roadsparticularly of the secondary network, due to the accumulation of puddles and rockfalls on the roads of Almería (A-334, Serón), Granada (A-325, Fonelas; A-4302, Huéscar; GR -9109, Cúllar; -4200, Baza and GR-5100 in Guadahortuna) and Málaga (A-343 and A-7059, Álora; MA-9004, A-7054 and A-7057, Cártama, more cuts due to the fall branches, trees and mud accumulation in different sections of the A-357, the A-367 and the A-7077, among others). In Almería, the AL-3303 was inaugurated in El Ejido.
In the last few hours, the alerts received by 112 have been concentrated in Malaga and Granada. In the case of the province of Malaga, the effects of the storm hit the capital of the Costa del Sol and the municipalities of Álora and Pizarra from ten o’clock in the morning, where the increased flow of the Guadalhorce River This caused flooding of rural homes and calls for help from people stuck in their homes and cars stuck in pools of water in known places like Camino Aneales, Vado Álamos, Isla Hermosa and the El neighborhood Puente.
In the capital Malaga, water entered the Chapel of Our Lady of Carmenin Las Navas Street, and slope collapses on roads in Montes de Málaga, sewer blockages, water basins and assistance in an educational center on Monte de Sancha Street were treated, as well as partial flooding of houses, basements, terraces and businesses. local.
Faced with this damage, the Andalusian Emergency Group (GREA112) was mobilized from its coastal base to offer support in planning, analysis and logistics and the deployment of a Forward Command Post (PMA) for coordinating the interventions of all operations, in collaboration with the Red Cross.
The Álora City Council has authorized the Antonio Henares sports center to temporary shelter to help affected neighbors, although at the moment this is not necessary and there is no one on the premises, according to local police sources. In Pizarra, firefighters intervened to save two people trapped in a trailer on a farm, as well as in Valle de Abdalajís when a family found themselves trapped in a prefabricated house in Loma La Parra.
The operations also intervened in the rescue of the occupants of a stuck vehicle due to the flooding of the Campanillas river on a road in Malaga. The other municipalities affected are Alhaurín de la Torre, Benalmádena, Campillos, Cártama, Casabermeja, Coín, Fuengirola, Marbella, Mijas, Nerja, Ronda, Torremolinos and Torrox.
Evictions in Grenada
In Granada, the storm mainly affected towns in the northern region, including Guadix. In this town, firefighters had to intervene to evacuate the water from the municipal theater, the educational center, the health center and a church.
In the province of Granada, the flooding of a boulevard flooded houses and some warehouses at the Hijate de Caniles station, while at the same time they had to expel in prevention the El Cordoví industrial zone with around twenty warehouses and a bridge that crosses the GR-4104 highway was affected.
In Caniles, at the same time, the firefighting and rescue services participated in the rescue of six people on the upper floor of a house. In Benamaurel, the Cúllar river overflowed at the A-4200, at kilometer 10, and flood warnings were also issued in La Calahorra, in the Zalabí valley. Diezma, Orce and Cúllar.
The province of Almería concentrated most of the requests for help to 112 at dawn and on Monday evening El Ejido was one of the municipalities most affected by the rains and rains. the hail of the last hours – between 9:00 p.m. Monday and midnight alone, more than fifty emergencies occurred in this city -.
Incidents also took place, although to a lesser extent, in Fines, Macael, Purchena, Cantoria, Chirivel or Vícar, among others. Most of the opinions concerned flooding of garages, cellars and housesas well as greenhouses and establishments.
The hail also caused around thirty cases due to falling branches, broken skylights, loose solar panels, as well as broken glass and elements of street furniture. The metal structure of a roof of the Llanos de Marín school in Roquetas de Mar it was moved by the wind without causing injury.
In Jaén there was an intervention landslides on the A-401 at the intersection with the JA-4205 in Huelma, on the A-326 in Pozo Alcón and at the accesses to the town of La Manseguilla in the capital due to the overflow of the Allozar stream. In the province of Jaén, the municipalities of Alcalá la Real, Arroyo del Allozar, Baños de la Encina, Cambil, Hornos, Huelma, Linares, Marmolejo, Porcuna, Pozo Alcón, Santa Elena, Santo Tomé and Santiago-Pontones were affected . addition of capital.
The Minister of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanz, activated this morning at 11:09 a.m. the emergency phase, operational situation 1, of the Emergency plan against the Risk of Flooding in Andalusia (PERI) in the face of the evolution of the storm.
This emergency phase refers to a phenomenon which involves damage and for which the necessary measures are implemented for the rescue and protection of people or property. The Council has already activated the Special emergency plan previously in the Risk of Floods in Andalusia (PERI) in the pre-emergency phase, operational situation 0, due to the rains recorded in eastern Andalusia.
Given these forecasts, the Ministry of the Presidency maintains the Adverse Weather Monitoring Group (FMA) to strengthen coordination and monitoring mechanisms while rain warnings are in effect in the autonomous community.
The State Meteorological Agency noted the red notice due to rain on the Costa del Sol and Guadalhorce, which will be active until 3:00 p.m. From the afternoon onwards, the precipitation will ease. The provinces of Granada, Málaga and Almería have an orange level due to rain and thunderstorms, while in the regions of Seville, Córdoba and Jaén the yellow warning is in force today for the same phenomena until 8:00 p.m.
