The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazonpointed out on Wednesday evening that the flow of calls to the missing persons telephone number has decreased, which is good news considering the final death toll from DANA which hit Spain’s Levante this week. Of course, their number will surely exceed a hundred once the search for bodies resumes this Thursday morning. In this sense, the mayor of Masanasa already announced late last night that in his city the final results would be at least “a dozen” dead. It was one of the points most affected by the disaster, with the overflow of a ravine whose effects could not yet be fully measured.
Mazón, who emphasized this Wednesday evening that during this day there were 70 air evacuations and 200 ground rescuesstressed Wednesday evening that, “with all precautions”, we cannot see from the air that there are people to be rescued. After confirming that the official death toll provisionally remains at 92 people in his community (95 in total in Spain), he explained that the water flowed like a torrent and did not remain stagnant, so there was no has no serious risk of poisoning or unsanitary conditions. water supply.
9.2% of the population of Valencia, or 115,000 inhabitants out of the 1,270,000 in the province, are still without electricity, even if the reality is “uneven” according to the municipalities and efforts are focused on recovering electricity. electric water supply. Mazón explained that the activity of terrestrial media continues in the affected areas, and that of aerial media will resume this Thursday with the light of the sun, he has already assured that it has been a “very intense day, with a lot of activity and lots of rescue.”
For her part, the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabéindicated that there are 1,065 professionals and 300 personnel mobilized by the Ministry of Defense, the UME and the Spanish Armed Forces, who focus on rescue, the canine field for the search of people and the cleaning of debris from roads.
Bernabé insisted that people do not travel on the roads of the province, to allow the operation of essential services and also for security reasons, since there are secondary roads on which the condition is unknown and where drivers could find themselves stuck.
Alerts coordinated with the Government
Mazón also explained that the DANA storm warning system is “protocolized and standardized, coordinated by the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Spanish Government”. In this sense, Mazón said that the alerts were issued by CECOPI and defended that “they obey the protocolized and standardized acts, which are carried out according to the information that has been arriving since Sunday.”
He explained that 112 started showing up in different ways and “evolved based on the notifications received.” “It is a protocolized system which was followed by all the technicians, the high command, coordinated with the troops and the administrations. It is therefore a previously established protocol which is also coordinated by the General Directorate of Civil Protection of the Spanish Government. “This is the protocol that was followed at all times,” he concluded.
