Mazón assures that there is no one left to rescue in Valencia after DANA while the Government says that this Thursday the “search and rescue phase” will begin

Mazón assures that there is no one left to rescue in Valencia after DANA while the Government says that this Thursday the “search and rescue phase” will begin
Mazón assures that there is no one left to rescue in Valencia after DANA while the Government says that this Thursday the “search and rescue phase” will begin
Carlos Mazón in archive image. (EUROPA PRESS)

Carlos Mazón has sent an optimistic message. The president of the Generalitat says that, according to the data they have, there would be no one left to rescue during the emergency work after the damage passed through Valencia. However, the Government of Spain sees it differently. This afternoon, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, assured in statements to Cadena Ser that the work will continue all night. “Tomorrow, taking advantage of the fact that the weather forecasts are better, we have to start the second phase, What is the search and rescue phase?”, he indicated, explaining that today they have focused on recovering the bodies of the deceased.

According to Mazón, this Wednesday they carried out 70 air evacuations and 200 ground rescues. The data have been presented at a press conference after a Cecopi meeting. The head of the Provincial Firefighters Consortium, José Miguel Basset, has declared that the direct rescue tasks are concluded, although not definitively, since some unforeseen event can always arise. According to Basset, it is clear that there are no victims left in the municipalities where it had been insisted that there were people on roofs or roofs of buildings, although the operation continues to operate in case any notice is received.

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Both Mazón and the Government delegate, Pilar Bernabé, have emphasized that the roads that are opened in the area are primarily for use by emergency servicesespecially in the province of Valencia, where there are no longer inaccessible urban centers. Mazón has explained that the DANA phenomenon experienced is not one of water accumulation, but rather a torrent type, so it can be ensured that there are no serious risks of poisoning or unhealthiness in the water supply.

On the other hand, the Generalitat assures that the flow of calls to the missing person’s telephone number enabled by the Generalitat has decreased and requested that if a person had reported a disappearance, but then located them or managed to contact them, they notify the same person. number, given that coverage problems have been significant.

In Moncloa they are a little more pessimistic. “Some people are trapped, but there are many others who we do not know if they are missing or not.. It is the great unknown at this moment, how many missing people there are, and precisely for that reason, the UME is going to launch the operation because it cannot act until there is a cleanup and the weather is better,” said Robles, who has guaranteed that these tasks will be carried out starting this Thursday, along with rescue dogs.

In addition, he has assured that both the Army and the Air Force will collaborate in the work with helicopters and drones. “It is exhausting, what they are experiencing is very hard, also the personal experiences, but it guarantees that the UME will be dedicated for as long as it takes,” he guaranteed. Robles is hopeful of finding more people alive. “It is a drama of enormous magnitude that has moved us all,” he concluded.

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