The Emergency Coordination Center (Cecem 112) managed fifty incidents, including 51, without any injuries being recorded in the first hours of activation of the Special Emergency Plan for Flood Risks in Andalusia ( PERI). The majority were concentrated in the provinces of Seville, with 18 incidents, and Cádiz with twelve, although a few cases were also treated in Huelva (twelve) and Córdoba (nine).
This Plan is in the pre-emergency phase, operational situation 0, and so far it has proceeded “normally” and without “particularly notable” incidents, as detailed by the Emergency Service in a note. The incidents began to enter the coordination room, from 6 a.m. this Saturday, and the municipalities that concentrated the majority of the notices were Carmona, Los Palacios and Villafranca and San Juan de Aznalfarache, in Seville, as well as Chipiona and Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in the province of Cádiz.
Regarding the nature of the incidents, most notices referred to specific flooding of basements, terraces and ground floors of homes, in addition to traffic incidents linked to the accumulation of water and mud on the roads of the secondary network. In this sense, road maintenance intervened on the A-471, due to the accumulation of mud and mud, at kilometer 57 in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The aforementioned road was not cut, although traffic was restricted in the area.
Also in this municipality of Cádiz, attention was coordinated for a married couple stuck in a country house in the area of Calle Peral, in the municipality of Sanluqueño, alerted the Provincial Consortium of Firefighters of Cádiz, as well as the police of Location. responded to the request for assistance.
In the province of Seville, local police in Mairena del Aljarafe reported that several houses were flooded on Castellón de la Plana street in that city, with no injuries reported. From Camas, municipal officials also reported the closure of the A-474, near the Las Canteras urbanization, due to asphalt damage and water accumulation.
This Saturday, from 8 a.m., warnings are coordinated regarding specific flooding in various streets of Sanlúcar de Barrameda and Chipiona, as well as falling branches and trees. The front has penetrated the westernmost coast of Cádiz and is advancing towards the interior of the province of Seville. Currently it is located in the region of Lebrija, El Cuervo, Trebujena and in the region of Las Cabezas. In the province of Córdoba, there are currently only specific alerts concerning the flooding of homes in Belmez and Pozoblanco.
ADVERSE WEATHER MONITORING GROUP
The Ministry of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification activated last Friday at 8:00 p.m. the pre-emergency phase, operational situation 0 of the PERI for the provinces of Seville and Cordoba, this phase is characterized by the monitoring of the phenomenon produced. or the available forecasts and forecasts, with the resulting information process to the competent civil protection bodies and authorities, as well as to the general population. This activation is adapted to the new Territorial Emergency Civil Protection Plan of Andalusia (PTEAnd).
Last Friday, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) activated the red level due to “heavy” rains starting at midnight in the Seville region of Sierra Norte and in the Cordoba region of Sierra and Pedroches.
The orange level – significant risk – is also active until 9:00 p.m. in the Grazalema region and on the coast of Cádiz, and until the end of the day this Saturday in the Campiñas of Córdoba and Seville and in the Litoral, Andévalo and Condado. (Huelva). As for the yellow alerts, they will be in force due to rains and thunderstorms in several regions of Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva, Seville and Jaén throughout the day on Saturday.
Given these forecasts, the Ministry of the Presidency activated the Adverse Meteorological Phenomena Monitoring Group (FMA) to strengthen coordination and monitoring mechanisms while rain warnings are in effect in the autonomous community.
The multidisciplinary group is made up of technical and management staff from the different regional and provincial zones of 112, as well as regional and provincial Civil Protection services, led by the General Directorate and the Emergencies Sub-Directorate of the Ministry of the Presidency.
This team analyzes and controls the adverse alerts that reach the Coordination Center, through the National Meteorological Agency, and supervises their dissemination among the municipalities of the affected regions and areas for the adoption, if possible, of preventive and emergency measures. intervention. Likewise, it guarantees rapid information of the population to prevent risks and avoid incidents.
Monitoring the phenomenon also includes the creation of incident monitoring maps to know in real time the impact of the storm in different parts of the region. This permanent observation not only makes it possible to anticipate the response if necessary, but also to structure all the mechanisms to guarantee at all times that the demands of the population due to the storm are met.
This additional monitoring represents a strengthening of the usual coordination with the operations and the various emergency services which intervene in the event of bad weather such as Infoca, also belonging to the Presidency, as well as the Machinery Parks and the Road Cleaning Services of the Ministry of Development, Articulation of the Territory. and Housing, the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment itself with the Environmental Agents in the tasks of this type of emergency, the Unit Attached to the National Police Corps of the Autonomous Community, as well as with the Local Police, State Security Forces and Agencies, the General Directorate of Traffic, Firefighting and Rescue Services and other institutions such as the Red Cross, local Civil Protection services and Volunteer Groups.
From the Emergency Coordination Center (Cecem 112), the regional call rooms in Seville and Malaga have been reinforced, as well as the provincial ones in the provinces affected by the adverse weather phenomenon: Huelva, Seville, Cádiz and Cordoba. The aforementioned monitoring of phenomena is the basis of the early warning system which results in an improvement of service to the population and allows the almost automatic deployment of any extraordinary resource adapted to the needs of each time and place.
The Emergency Coordination Center recommends following the instructions for area operations, as well as the recommendations proposed on the official 112 networks, and advises downloading the guide to protect yourself in the event of flooding, available on the following site: ‘
