CATÁSTROFE EN VALENCIA: SIGUE LA BÚSQUEDA DE DESAPARECIDOS

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Hablamos con el periodista argentino desde españa, Gastón Burome quien se encuentra en la ruta escapando de "Dana", la tormenta que azotó a Valencia y ya lleva más de 200 muertos y centenares de desaparecidos.   Seguí en #ElNoticieroDeA24

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00:00Well, you're on top of the car, I imagine it will be difficult to move, right?

00:04I'll tell you, we were going here with a friend, Maxi,

00:07we were going to Catarroca, which is one of the places where not so much help is coming,

00:14we were mobilizing with the car, well,

00:17he grabs us, I'm going to turn the camera around so that I can show you the situation,

00:21how many people live on top of each other, it's a holiday,

00:23and this is being done on a holiday, imagine a weekday,

00:29because now they are also taking this highway that they didn't have to take,

00:32because the highway that goes to Barcelona is completely blocked,

00:36so you can't get out of there,

00:37so today is a chaotic day in terms of traffic,

00:41to get to Cayacuba, there are a lot of pedestrians,

00:44there is a lot of traffic, you have to get there much faster than they are.

00:48Of course, there are talks of 200 dead in the entire state of Valencia,

00:54I imagine there are more complicated areas than others,

00:56now, does the water start to go down, Gastón, or does it not recede?

01:00Yes, it is going down, because it really was,

01:06that is, around Maxi we are losing 4 meters of water,

01:11which is already going down because it didn't rain again,

01:15so for now we are in better conditions, let's say, than it was 24 hours ago.

01:22Of course, of course.

01:23Now, you told me yesterday, we were chatting on the radio and you told me that

01:27it was impressive the moment when the most complex part came,

01:33that you had never lived there the same.

01:36Yes, as it was, it was 8 or 10 minutes that swept everything.

01:43Well, Maxi, who is here driving with me, he works with the truck,

01:47he had to do it, he took it going to work or going back to work,

01:53if you want, Paxi can tell you here,

01:55Facundo can tell you his experience, he was in a traffic jam.

02:00Maxi, how are you? How are you?

02:02Hello, Facundo, good afternoon.

02:06What did you live, tell me, in that fatal moment?

02:11The storm hit me in the middle of the road,

02:15on Highway 7, which enters from Albacete,

02:21from the Spanish part of Albacete, towards the city of Valencia.

02:27And nothing, the tornado, the part of the tornado that of winds

02:32and the overflow of water from the nearby rivers and the road was cut off.

02:37And we were up the road for two days, waiting for them to enable it.

02:41Of course, and you stayed there, you had to sleep in the truck.

02:45Yes, yes, up the road.

02:47We stayed as we would be now, but sleeping there.

02:49Okay, but did Maxi have resources to be able to support you,

02:53even if it was a couple of hours?

02:56I was lucky that the police cut off the,

03:02let's say, the bumper, to go from road to road,

03:06they cut off the communication that there is and we could turn around

03:10above the highway and park in a service station.

03:15No, but there are many colleagues who stayed on the side of the road,

03:18and nothing, in the middle of the road, without anything,

03:22no service, no water, no food.

03:26And we spent two nights like that, until they were able to enable the road.

03:32Of course. Miriam?

03:33Yes, I wanted to consult you, because here

03:38there was a lot of talk about some hydraulic developments

03:41that made a fairly important river change or flood the area,

03:46and that some adduce that it was the change in this course

03:51that produced or encouraged this situation,

03:55this disaster zone, in terms of this flood that was formed.

04:00Do you have any news about this?

04:03Well, what Maxi also knows,

04:06we were talking just a while ago, they did a whole work,

04:09because after the last, let's say, situations that Valencia had suffered,

04:14they did works so that the river Turia passed by,

04:17let's say, through Valencia, so Valencia itself, in the center,

04:20did not suffer so much the flood or so much the storm

04:24as we suffer it, because we are in the towns,

04:27in the outskirts of Valencia, not in the center.

04:29I understand. Well, and the accumulation of mud,

04:32because obviously, due to the orography,

04:35a slope is produced from the upper areas to the lower areas.

04:39How much can you measure the accumulation of mud?

04:42It has been said that one meter, two meters of mud

04:44is accumulated in the central areas, even.

04:48Yes, the truth is that...

04:52The river Turia,

04:54formerly, during the flood of 1957 in Valencia,

04:57passed through the middle of Valencia.

04:59As a result of that flood, they did it

05:01costing the whole city of Valencia Capital,

05:04and Valencia Capital did not suffer damage in the flood.

05:08But the river that goes down from the Requena area,

05:12which is 17 waters, which is at the height,

05:14which is in the mountains, which begins in the mountains.

05:17From there, everything went down through the river called El Pollo.

05:21Yes. El Pollo, I think.

05:22And that was the one that passed through the cities,

05:27through the middle of the cities, and it was the one that overflowed

05:30and flooded the cities. Very clear, very clear.

05:32But if you are talking about 70 centimeters of...

05:37of mud in the houses.

05:39And the problem is that there are many cars

05:42mounted on top of each other,

05:45as if they were piled up.

05:46And people still can't get out of their houses.

05:50Sure. Let's see.

05:52I was asking him, we were chatting with Gastón and Maxi,

05:57if there was a kind of dissent

06:00regarding how Valencia reported as a state,

06:05as a province, and how the national government reported.

06:08And if in the media, people were not confused

06:11about what could happen,

06:14beyond force, nature, right?

06:18Yes, imagine, as Facundo told you yesterday,

06:21this happened to us around five and a half, six in the afternoon

06:24and the third came at eight o'clock at night.

06:26Sure. I repeated that, Alberto and Gastón.

06:28At five and a half, six in the afternoon,

06:32the events began to happen,

06:34everything began to fly through the air.

06:37And at eight o'clock at night,

06:40the alerts began to sound.

06:43If I'm not mistaken, Maxi, at eight o'clock at night.

06:45What is the alert system like?

06:47What exactly is it that we use here in the Argentine Republic?

06:51How does it sound on your cell phones,

06:52the alert issued by the provincial, national or municipal authority?

06:58You are using the phone or you are not using it

07:01and it sounds like a beep that does not stop.

07:04I mean, it's beep, beep, beep, constantly.

07:07It's a very loud beep,

07:09a beep that you can hear,

07:11you can even hear the neighbor's, imagine.

07:13And that was delayed for eight hours

07:15with respect to the meteorological report

07:17issued by the National Meteorological Agency.

07:20That is the controversy that we have received here

07:24and we have heard, of course.

07:27Of course, we had an orange alert

07:29in the morning on Tuesday,

07:30which told us that the children would not go to school.

07:34But after that, everything was very cloudy in the morning.

07:39Then it started to clear up a bit,

07:40but after four o'clock in the afternoon,

07:42it started to get dark again, very dark.

07:46And that's where at five and a half, six in the afternoon,

07:49everything started, as I say.

07:52And the cell phones, the alert on the cell phones came up later.

07:56Yes, yes, as I told you, at eight o'clock at night.

08:00Sure.

08:01Look, I want to put a minute, Gastón, a video

08:04that you are going to see,

08:06because there Maxi works with trucks,

08:08we are going to describe it to you,

08:10but it is a video of a mail

08:15that arrives, look, it is shocking,

08:18because we are talking about a high car,

08:21a high vehicle, but it is getting in, it is getting in,

08:24trusting that suddenly it will be able to move forward

08:27and at a certain moment, there is no way for it to move forward

08:33and it ends up driven, Javi, by the water.

08:37By the water, and this is what happened to many cars and trucks,

08:41not to mention, imagine that it happens to trucks.

08:45You know that there is a technique, a route,

08:49that in the face of a flood, when the car has,

08:54for example, the water up to the hood,

08:59not going through the hood, of course, up to the hood,

09:02one should, to try to get out of the car,

09:05you can't open the door, because the water, what it does to you is

09:08a counterweight so you can't open it.

09:10It is with the feet, with both feet,

09:13sitting and almost lying down,

09:16in the seat, pushing what is precisely the windshield,

09:20to take it out.

09:21You take it out, you manage to get it out there.

09:23You don't break it, you take it out, from below,

09:26so that it opens as if it were a window.

09:29This is the recommendation, Javi.

09:30This is a recommendation.

09:32As far as possible, do not lower the windows

09:34so that the car does not flood you and have the possibility of going out,

09:37climbing the hood and then to the roof, if there is no other remedy.

09:41Eventually swim, of course.

09:42Yes, or stay in the car,

09:45because the car, when it is filled with water, falls.

09:48Some of the vehicles, we saw them floating,

09:51but on the side, dragged, pushed by others too.

09:54Many people were saved because they stayed on the roofs of the cars

09:57and others were carried by the current with the car

09:59and despite the fact that they were on top of the roof,

10:02with this current, they couldn't.

10:04Maxi, in your case, the truck, how far did the water get?

10:09No, in my case, I didn't suffer so much water,

10:12it was more than 40 centimeters.

10:15But hey, as that truck image shows,

10:17that truck has a weight of 17,000 kilos.

10:22Of course, a lot.

10:24So, because of the force that the water had,

10:28you couldn't do much more.

10:30There it says that it was not signaled,

10:31that the road was flooded

10:33and the truck does not realize,

10:34thinking that there was not so much water and gets in.

10:36Those are the comments that there are.

10:37In fact, the driver is still missing.

10:40Both the driver and the truck cannot find him.

10:43Maxi, the...

10:44But there are trucks...

10:46Yes, continue, please.

10:47There are trucks that are mounted on top of the cars.

10:50That is, the water raised 17,000 kilos

10:52as if it were a crane and mounted it on top of the cars.

10:56Maxi, you have already heard the figure here of 202 dead,

11:00unfortunately, and more than 100 missing at this time.

11:04Have you heard this figure too?

11:07Has it been updated in the last few minutes?

11:09And the other question,

11:10how are you with the issue of the supply of, I don't know,

11:14of electricity,

11:15of drinking water, for example?

11:17And what is the health care that you are receiving?

11:23Well, the first one was the issue of...

11:26Yes, yes, the number of dead,

11:29missing and updated.

11:30Missing, yes.

11:31Let's see.

11:32It is that now, when the water goes down,

11:34they are able to take out the cars,

11:36they are able to enter the houses.

11:38So, unfortunately,

11:40the people who already figured out how to disappear,

11:43they find them and they are dead.

11:46There are many cars inside the river.

11:51They can't, they don't have access to the river,

11:54they don't know if there are people or not.

11:57So, there are many,

12:00they are very busy, a lot of work.

12:03Yes, there are...

12:05Today, the military forces were seen more,

12:11the military forces,

12:15working.

12:16In some places, services have already started to come,

12:20both light and water.

12:23Until yesterday, there was nothing in these places.

12:27And last night, light and water started to come

12:31in some places.

12:32In others, not yet.

12:33And the number of dead is updated,

12:37it is updated permanently, unfortunately.

12:40Every moment.

12:41Yes.

12:42Yes, we just talked about it,

12:45all the water that was dragged

12:48ended up in the pool.

12:52It is a swamp that is connected,

12:55that is, it has a mouth to the sea.

12:57The sea is now taking everything to the beach,

13:01everything it dragged.

13:03So, anything can be found.

13:07How barbaric.

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