Two Civil Guard agents and the wife of a lieutenant They died last Tuesday following the passage of DANA for the Valencian Community. According to various sources from the Army Institute, these are three victims from the Paiporta barracks (Valencia), missing since yesterday, locked in the basement of this barracks.
According to Corps sources, the Special Underwater Activities Group (GEAS) tried all night to rescue them, but due to the violence and intensity of the Isolated depression at high levels (DANA)there was nothing they could do for them.
The bodies, in any case, have not yet been found, and it cannot be ruled out that other people in the barracks may have perished due to the destructive passage of this atmospheric phenomenon, one of the most serious in the world. Spain.
A civil guard from Paiporta and the companion of another agent, among the missing
Several people were stuck in the basement of the barracks and others went up to the roof while waiting for help..🙏🏻💚🇪🇸 pic.twitter.com/4Oph1jJBQI– Civil Guard 1905 (@1905Civil) October 30, 2024
The rest of the guards managed to climb onto the roof of the barracks to ask for help and be rescued.
The situation in Paiporta is truly “critical”, with dozens of residents missing and unable to contact their families and friends. “We don’t know how we are going to present ourselves tomorrow,” said a neighbor in statements to À Punt, Valencian public television.
“People are confused because it wasn’t raining in Paiporta. People were shopping and walking in the street. But within minutes there was a flood and now the town is flooded,” added this neighbor.
The flood was caused by the overflow of the Poyo ravine, which affected the entire metropolitan area of Valencia. “This is a situation never seen before“, declared Tuesday afternoon the Valencian president Carlos Mazon.
52 dead
THE Valencian Community was seriously affected this Tuesday by a situation of destruction and emergency. Heavy rains and hurricane force winds caused significant flooding in various areas of Valencia, collapse of infrastructure and endangering the lives of many people.
The DANA which hit the south and east of the peninsula unleashed all its fury on Tuesday. There have already been at least 52 deaths, as confirmed by various government sources. The worst has been taken the province of Valence. There alone, there are already 51.
In Castilla La-Mancha, one person died in the town of Mira (Cuenca). The small town of Létur (Albacete), where at least six people are missing after a violent water storm which overflowed a stream and flooded the center of the town.
torrential rain they have They wreaked havoc in many places and left behind traces of destruction. Incidents number in the hundreds in the Valencian Community, Castile-La Mancha, Region of Murcia or Andalusia. In some areas, heavy rains left more than 200 liters per square meter in just a few hours, according to data from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
Floods and outages
Tuesday was marked red by the National Meteorological Agency. It was “the most unfavorable and exceptional day” of the meteorological episode, as defined by Aemet. He was not wrong in his prediction. Intense rains have put several provinces on the Mediterranean coast on red alert, causing heavy floods, traffic cutsdevastated crops or the derailment of an AVE Málaga-Madrid convoy.
Since the early hours of the day, authorities and emergency teams have been deployed to all affected regions.
The Military Emergency Unit (UME) played a crucial role after being deployed by the government, carrying out air and ground rescues in extremely adverse conditions.
According to Armed Forces sources, 1,034 soldiers were deployed in Valencia, the majority coming from the EMU. 250 are located directly in the areas of the drama. The rest of the troops wait for neighboring areas in the hope of intervening when they receive instructions to do so.
