With a broken voice and having to stop his statements. THE President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, It was broken this Tuesday when it was time to take stock of the management of DANA which has devastated Valencia in recent days.
Asked about the management of the central government, the regional government and the insults and moments of tension experienced on Sunday, the regional president (used to entering into controversy) left aside the political fight to focus on the victims.
“I didn’t sleep all night,” he said.
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During an event at Montejo beech forestthe president of the PP of Madrid assured that it was very “difficult” to maintain a certain normality and “a smile in front of the cameras” when inside “we are destroyed”.
“We are living in a dramatic moment, where we are suffering enormously along with the Valencian population,” he stressed. Ayuso admitted that she didn’t sleep “all night” because of the “helplessness” that wanting to collaborate and not knowing how to do otherwise causes her.
Bombs, food…
“I have a feeling inside that tells me that I have to support something more to Valence“, he admitted, while assuring that the technical evaluations of those who acted before or after will be seen in time. Not now.
“Conclusions will be drawn over time, but now we can only put ourselves in these people’s shoes.”
Assuring that it is “very difficult” for her to value anything other than thinking about how to help more, the president was honest with the press and those present at the event, who, amid applause, supported when she was on the verge of tears. “I have no words. I can’t,” he reiterated.
Among the many means that the Community of Madrid has sent to Valencia, there is the Community of Madrid Immediate Response Team (ERICAM)composed of firefighters and health workers from SUMMA 112, who returned to Madrid last night for three and six days of work on the towns of Benetusser and Sedaví affected by DANA.
“They arrived tired, but with the satisfaction of having collaborated in everything they could so that, as quickly as possible, the devastated areas return to normality,” reported emergency account 112 of the Community of Madrid on social networks.
Today, a total of 62 firefighters and 6 from Summa. They have 21 intervention vehicles. They work to drain the water and help neighbors, coordinated by regional services.
Madrid Metro
Throughout the day it was also announced that Madrid Metro In the coming hours, seven bilge pumps, three vehicles and seven workers will be sent to Valencia to collaborate in emergency works in places flooded with water following the last DANA.
The means provided by the suburban company to help with water evacuation work are part of the system that the Madrid Metro has made available to National Center for Monitoring and Coordination of Emergencies (CENEM).
The Provincial Consortium of Firefighters of Valencia recently activated the need to have this reinforcement, both material and human, indicated the regional government.
The Madrid suburbs have proposed different infrastructures and tools to facilitate the evacuation of water from flooded spaces. Among them, 7 medium and high height mud pumps, a generator, a light tripod, supply hoses, electrical distribution board to power several simultaneous pumps or a high-power starter. Likewise, means of personal protection are also collected, such as tailor-made equipment, PPE or boots.
