Palma City Hall has reopened cemeteries and parks and gardens from 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, after warnings due to unfavorable weather conditions were deactivated.
In a press release, the City Hall announced that the Municipal Commission of Civil Protection of Palma (PaterPalma) has agreed to reopen municipal cemeteries and parks and gardens from 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, after Aemet lifted the notices according to which they remained. active due to adverse weather conditions.
The Deputy Mayor of Municipal Coordination of the Town Hall, Javier Bonetsaid the decision to reopen parks and gardens was adopted “reducing the possibility of heavy rains and storms in Palma.” “However,” he clarified, “the measure adopted at the first meeting of the commission according to which citizens will be able to go to cemeteries next week from Monday to Sunday between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. is maintained.”
Bonet summed up the day of this Friday, where Palma was on alert“as an exercise of responsibility on the part of citizens who followed the advice of the Town Hall not to go out into the street or take the car except for very urgent reasons. In fact, “the incidents were minimal and particular attention was paid to the torrents which, except in a section of the Sóller road, ultimately did not overflow,” he added.
The deputy mayor thanked the local police, firefighters and all the municipalities involved in the control and prevention work for their work throughout the day this Friday.
All this after the 112 emergency service of the Balearic Islands All severe weather alerts disabled this Saturday to the Islands after having “thanked all the operations for their work and, above all, the entire population for their responsible behavior in the face of the episode of rain and storms which affected the Islands”.
All roads in the Balearic Islands have also already been opened to traffic, after a calm night in terms of weather on all the islands.
The Balearic Islands Emergency Service 112 has updated the incidents it has managed due to the passage of the DANA, bringing the total managed until 8:30 a.m. this Saturday November 2 to 91, 90 in Mallorca and one in Menorca, the majority are due to flooding on public roads (22) and in basements (29).
