THE DANAHe leaves no respite and also attacks Andalusia. This Wednesday, the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, reported on the first death due to the floods which hit part of the province of Malaga on Tuesday. A 71-year-old man, rescued from his home, died this Wednesday at the hospital where he had been transferred.
The man had previous pathologies, such as hemiplegia, and it is still unclear whether he was from Cártama or Alhaurín de la Torre, as Moreno explained. The deceased had to be rescued and came into contact with water due to flooding, which added to the stressful situation and the “shock” of the moment.
He arrived at the hospital in a “very difficult” situation and, despite attempts, his life could not be saved, Moreno said. In addition, in Malaga there are three other elderly people in serious condition he had to be saved.
Expulsion of fifty residents of the Guadalcacín district (Cádiz)
Around fifty residents of the local entity of Guadalcacín, in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), had to be evicted from their home temporarily after the heavy rains that fell this Wednesday, October 30 caused the flooding of these homes.
Salvador Ruiz, mayor of Guadalcacín, explained to journalists that between 30 and 40 families had to be evicted, announcing that They can return home “with appropriate precautions” and that we will try to help so that “normality returns to their homes and lives as quickly as possible”.
“Ideally, they should spend this night away from home.“, but the firefighters tell us that in principle there is no danger, just be vigilant, and we will be aware that if we see signs, we will be on top so that this does not happen again,” said the mayor.
In this sense, he indicated that they would keep the municipal pavilion open “until necessary” to provide the service to people who cannot return home or who do not have a place to stay This evening.
The mayor said that this morning “everything seemed to be going well” and that within “an hour and a half” it started to rain to the point where he was in water “up to his waist”. Now, as he said, it has been about four hours since “the water fell heavily”, thus helping this city gradually return to normality.
Asked about the amount of rain that fell in this area of Jerez, he stressed that he did not have the data but had ventured to encrypt it in “more than 200 liters“I don’t have the data but as we saw, it was raining constantly, non-stop and in brutal amounts,” he added.
“Fortunately, we can say it”
For his part, one of the affected neighbors declared that this is the second time that this situation has happened to them, the first dating back to February 2010. “Regardless of the water that may have fallen and the fact that a lot of water fell, it is surprising that politically the infrastructure is abandoned, I think there is political neglect regarding infrastructure,” he added.
So, he said it was a neighbor who told him where the water was coming from and “thinking we were going to flood, we started collecting to try to save what we could.” In this sense, he explained that the water reached a height of more than 60 centimeters and that “from the bottom we could not save anything.” “And the car on the street, perhaps to throw it away, reached half the height of the door,” he added.
As for the night, they were told they could stay at home, but “the alert remains and if we can be with neighbors or with a friend or family, even better.” “Fortunately, we can say that,” he concluded.
Antonia, another city resident who had to be evicted from her home, described how she experienced those first moments with her six-year-old grandson and attributed the voices and noise from the street to ” a fight.” When she realized the water had become “a river,” her grandson, her husband and her dog went up to the second floor, while she worked to remove “things that could be damaged.”
This neighbor admitted that she had been “scared” during what she experienced and that her house remained full of “mud”. Tonight, as he told the media, he will spend it with one of his three children.
DANA’s gravity is now focused on Cádiz and Seville
The Ministry of the Interior has confirmed that the situation caused by DANA in Valencia and Castile-La Mancha “has exceeded the point of maximum severity”, and that Concern is now focused on certain areas of Cádiz and Seville.
Internal sources explained that the crisis cabinet formed by the ministry to monitor the consequences of DANA met this afternoon, where, among other issues, the execution of civil protection plans in the most affected areas was analyzed. more vulnerable.
The crisis cabinet was chaired by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and benefited from the assistance of the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez, the undersecretary of the department and various officials from the Directorate General of Civil Protection and Emergencies and General Directorate of Traffic.
The Interior highlighted the work carried out by members of the State Security Forces and Corps, the local police, the DGT and the civil protection and health organizations of regional and local administrations, to help the victims and recover the basic infrastructure and services.
