The President of Castile-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Pagesupported the actions with the DANA of his Valencian counterpart, Carlos Mazón, who was questioned from some sides about the delay in launching alerts to avoid the catastrophe. “What I hear about the warnings is that the Valencian Community has a logic. As far as we are concerned, the notices came in a timely manner – not the notices to individuals, which are only part of it; What is really important is to have a prevented service system that was virtually mobilized before the water fell. Anyone who says there was no weather forecasting service doesn’t know what they’re talking about. To give you an idea, some of the people we are looking for belong to mobilized services,” he noted in reference to the two Letur municipal employees missing and that they were working in the “fight” against floods, as happened with a Civil Guard agent, whose whereabouts are still unknown.
The president of Castilla-La Mancha added that “you have to have a certain peace of mind and not Each case must be elevated to a category because we would fall into a huge injustice, and I speak more for Valencia than for us.“, because “in our case the warnings were orange, and in other previous DANAs they were red after the storm passed, but I’m not criticizing anyone. Anyway, we must surely always learn from misery and disaster. But everything is much more complicated, and I say this more when talking about the Valencian Community. Flood warnings prompt people to go to upper floors, which is correct, but we have cases where what is gone is the entire house. ” He said the same thing about cars, that it is recommended to remove them from garages, but “then large traffic jams of vehicles pile up on top of each other.” He stressed that “one should be wary of those who claim to have a magic formula for anticipating natural disasters, because real injustice would likely occur.” I ask some of them to shut up because they must help by remaining silent.”
“We must analyze case by case, family by family, the years of filming in so many crises allow us to know what the methodology is; I have not asked any mayor if they are from the PP or not – in this case it is the PSOE – we do not make political distinctions, all administrations must address a singleand believe me, I will be the first to say that if an administration establishes any sort of bigotry or nonsense, We cannot prevent stupid things from being said, even in times of crisis; here we will work like a pineapple“.
“No matter what forecasting system we have, you have to be very involved in the drama to know that Decisions are made in seconds, sometimes – most of the time – they are right“And in others, unfortunately, we don’t do it as well,” he pointed out when asked about it.
Page stressed that in assessing the role of officials from different administrations, “we can say that some come to take a photo, but if we didn’t come, they would criticize us even more; but understanding the pain of the people, there are politicians who take the photo but before, they fired and cut off emergency services”, in reference – without quoting it, according to regional government sources – to the former president of Castilla-La Mancha, Maria Dolores de Cospedal. He assured that on the contrary, his government has increased in recent years “the resources that we had eight years ago”.
Regarding the natural disasters that have occurred recently, Page said that “the climate has been sending a multitude of messages for years and is sensing and reacting to the mistreatment it receives from the human condition.”
