The Ministry of the Interior, at the request of the Valencian Generalitat, activated the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism and requested 100 large-capacity pumping equipment and 50 technical assistance experts and support to intervene in the Valencian regions affected by DANA.
The purpose of the request is strengthen teams who on the ground are already working on emptying high-density sludge in garages and sewers, cleaning roads or recovering water treatment plants, Interior reported in a statement.
Likewise, the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Ministry of the Interior, which activated this mechanism, asked the European Union to shipping of means of cleaning, recovery and waste treatment such as construction containers, dump trucks, sweeping vehicles, mini excavators, pump trucks, cranes and platforms.
Spain activated the European Emergency Collaboration System for the first time in 2009, when air resources and forestry brigades were called upon to deal with a wave of forest fires.
Later, this European mechanism was activated on different occasions during the Covid-19 pandemic to receive shipments of masks or to evacuate Spanish citizens from Mozambique and different South American countries.
