The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sánchez Ruiz, convene an extraordinary plenary session to seek a declaration of a disaster area to the municipality and the implementation of a plan of support for those affected by flooding by rain yesterday.
Sanchez Ruiz has expressed its commitment to the residents, farmers and rural landowners who have seen in a few hours have destroyed their properties by the overflow of wadis and river Guadalentín.
For this reason, according to the councilor pointed out, is to ask the National Government to declare the area as catastrophic, as it takes more resources than local to get everything back to normal.
In addition, said to be asking all instances, both regional, state and European Union, established financial aid for the victims, and a recovery plan for the town roads, among other actions.
In this sense he said that "it's time to be with the neighbors, to fix the roads, to tune back the city, and not to make this situation a political weapon, but you have to join forces to achieve a good result. "
At the time, also wanted to publicly give condolences to the families who have suffered the loss of people who have died in Spain and specifically in Puerto Lumbreras, with whose mayor was in communication during yesterday.
