La dana en Andalucía shakes the cities of Cádiz and Malaga, where a British citizen died after being rescued

Andalusia suffered for 48 hours una intensa dana que ha dejado consequencias desastrosas in the form of flooding and destrozos in a good part of society. More than 1,200 incidents have been reported in total, with the most affected provinces being Huelva, Sevilla, Cádiz, Almeria and Malaga. The latest was the worst since the death of a 71-year-old man and the hospitalization of three others in critical condition. In the municipalities of Cartama and Alora Malaga, several small neighborhoods were cut off after the Guadalhorce River overflowed. According to information, in less than 24 hours, up to 176 liters per square meter were collected. Amet y el cauce reventó. Con el frente desplazándose hacia el oeste, la Junta de Andalusia The state of emergency rises above the 1st stage. And for the first time, he activated the ES-ALERT system, which sends a message to all mobile phones in the region where a red warning about the risk of flooding is active in the countryside of Cadiz. The tool was not used the previous day with the same warning for the Guadalhorce region.

Los vecinos de Álora y Cártama, en Málagavivieron una pesadilla a media mañana del martes, cuando una immensa tromba de agua made que el río Guadalhorce sebordara a su paso por both areas. El agua arrastraba coches e inundaba casas y fincas de citricos y aguacates, que han quedado completamente anegadas. Este miércoles hus neighbors hacián balans con el barro hasta las rodillas y la mirada en el cielo, puesto que la alerta amarilla continó hasta la tarde y se temían que se pitieran las intense precipitaciones. Residents of Dona Ana's Cartameña neighborhood – the worst affected – woke up without drinking water, as did the entire municipality of Alora, where some 200 people started the day isolated by the poor state of the roads. Both municipalities relied on the support of numerous firefighters, Civil Defence, Local Police and members of the Infoca Plan who struggled to clear the mud, reeds and dirt. Meanwhile, emergency services continued to locate incommunicado neighbors. Figures from the first balance show that around a hundred people had to be rescued by water and air as a result of the devastation that resulted in around 500 incidents in the province of Malaga. among them is a high-speed train derailment y el corte de numerous carreteras. Prevention of incidents during surgery.

The position of the President of the Junta of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonillareorganizing his agenda kept the only act he confirmed during a visit to the laboratories of the Hospital Universitario San Cecilio in Granada. He then went to Alora where he reported the death of a 71-year-old British citizen. He was rescued from his home in Alhaurín de la Torre with symptoms of hypothermia and later suffered a heart attack while being transferred to the Guadalhorce hospital, where he died. Otras tres personas sigune hospitalizadas en estado mazar. “Es una jornada muy triste,” said Moreno Bonilla al tiempo que pedía a la ciudadanía prudencia y no coger el coche ni acercarse a cauces de ríos o arroyos. Además, previous imbalance. “Son muchos los daños y ahora vamos quantificarlos a lo largo de estos días.” In the field of agriculture, almost from Cádiz to Almeria and also Huelva sobre todo,” he said. In El Ejido, de hecho, there are 4,500 hectares of greenhouses that were damaged by the heavy hail that fell on Monday night.. Andalucia has put three Super Puma helicopters at the disposal of the Generalitat of Valenciana, which the community is to help with rescue efforts. They can be essential to access the many still isolated areas of Valencia.

Warning in Cádiz

The extreme situation that Malaga experienced on Tuesday was transferred Cádiz durante el miercoles. La provincia gaditana amaneció este miercoles con buena parte de su territorio en alerta naranja —la campiña jerezana y la costa— y el resto en amarilla —en la Sierra—. Pasadas las dos de la tarde, el aviso viró ve rojo, el máximo escalón. So, most of the incidents took place in Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, El Puerto de Santa Maria or the capital of Cadiz. The worst part is that it has taken the city of Jerez, where important water balsams are produced in the streets of the city center such as Porvera and Honda.

The activation of Aemet's red signal for the rural area caused people in the warning zones of the Xunta de Andalucía to send an alert message to their mobile phones, called the ES-ALERT system. . It is the first time that this functionality has been used outside of test contexts, and it served to inform neighbors to “take extreme caution and avoid displacement,” as explained by the Xunta de Andalucía. In any case, the daytime hours of the red alert in the province passed normally and without rain. The maximum warning is forecast to be active until midnight.

In the absence of a more honest assessment of the damage, this Wednesday's rains left a trail of more than 140 cases in the province of Cadiz, most of them concentrated in Jerez and its countryside and Sanlucar. In El Puerto de Santa María, the intersection of streets and works that reach the door of several blocks has accidents, fallen trees, collapsed walls and even a significant hole. At the end of this edition, Jerez kept five roads cut between rural cores, adding three more from the Diputación de Cádiz in the Sierra and one from the Junta de Andalucia between Espera and Arcos.

Therefore, the entire province of Seville was placed on an orange alert on Wednesday, which will last until Thursday. Eva Saiz. Although the Andalusian capital canceled the Book Fair, ordered the closure of all parks and municipal sports facilities, and prohibited entry to the cemetery on the eve of the most visited dates, the rain did not cause any serious incidents. Any danger of restricting circulation may occur before the risk of water accumulation.