Totana City Council started the cleanup and improvement of areas that have been affected by the torrential rains yesterday that registraon a volume of up to 115 liters per square meter at the time in the municipality.
Since the start of the rain, the Consistory pusto up the Special Emergency Plan built by local police, Civil Protection and Totana municipal brigades in order to tackle the problems arising from this situation.
According to sources in the Department of Facility Management of the City, has launched a special cleaning plan on rural roads and areas most affected by the rains to vehicle traffic can reestablish as normal in the lowlands of municipality and in the hamlet of El Raiguero and El Paretón.
In addition, the Highways Agency is also cleaning the C-8 and the road to La Santa.
The mayor of the City Facility Management has indicated that all day yesterday we worked on solving the most important problems affecting housing, roads, water supply, sewerage systems, among others, so all weekend week and next week is going to make a major effort to get everything back to normal.
At first, there were floods in the Tyrol section Camilleri, were evacuated students of Jose Moya Trilla, in the basement of the Avenida Juan Carlos First, in the area of ​​La Ramblica and municipal buildings as City Council and Planning departments.
Bedia has indicated that there are several areas where the population of the hamlet of El Paretón that had run out of water, a problem that has been solved.
In this sense, the head area of ​​the City Comprehensive Maintenance publicly thank the operators of municipal warehouse workers and Municipal Water thanks to his efforts have been urgently solve the most important problems.
It has also indicated that employees of the concessionaire of garbage collection have also collaborated on all cleaning of streets, roads, etc, so also thanked the great work that the entire team comprising all these services, because without their help could not have done all these tasks so urgent.
Furthermore, the Councillor for Public Safety, Francisco Hernandez, also said that thanks to the coordination between the Security Forces, Civil Protection and municipal crews responded yesterday during the more than two hundred calls were recorded Civil Protection.
In this regard, he explained that, in a situation of this nature, it is normal nervousness of citizens and emergency calls, so effective were increased during the difficult hours to respond to all of them.
The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez, visited along with the mayors of Safety, Maintenance of the City, and districts all areas affected by the rains in order to see first hand the damage which has been so we can make more effective solutions for these problems.
Ruiz Sanchez also thanked the local police and civil defense effort they have made during these hours to respond to citizens in situations of emergency.
In addition, the team explained that Government has set an example of responsibility more and exemplary to work hand in hand during these hours together with effective technical and bailing water, making cleanup, etc.
It also has added to the words of the mayor of the City Comprehensive Maintenance and thanked warehouse workers, municipal water, refuse collection and the Autonomous Community effort made in the town.
Sánchez Ruíz stated that in a situation of this nature can not do much, but if you put the emergency devices and cleaning up, as has been done.
In this regard said that the most important thing is that there have been no personal injury and no regrets any loss of life, as has happened in the neighboring town of Puerto Lumbreras.
However, the mayor has advanced to be urgently convene an Advisory Council to assess Agrarian situation in which the field has been Totana and to account for losses in order to find effective solutions to help farmers .
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