🔴 BAHÍA BLANCA: EL AGUA BAJÓ Y EL DESASTRE QUEDÓ A LA VISTA

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La ciudad de Bahía Blanca enfrenta una devastadora inundación que ha dejado un saldo de 13 muertos y más de 1300 evacuados. Las autoridades han enviado fondos para paliar la situación, pero los daños son incalculables. La búsqueda de las hermanas Pilar y Delfina Hecker, desaparecidas tras ser entregadas a un conductor en medio del caos, conmueve a la comunidad. Las fuertes lluvias desbordaron cauces naturales, agravando el desastre en una ciudad vulnerable por su ubicación geográfica. El gobierno y los equipos de rescate trabajan incansablemente para mitigar el impacto de esta tragedia.

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00:00This is the disaster area, where we can see the incalculable damage to the city of Bahía Blanca.

00:08Exclusive images, we say 325,000 inhabitants.

00:12A city destroyed, according to the governor himself, until now.

00:16The national government, only to alleviate these first hours, sent funds for 10 billion pesos.

00:22But they will serve as a palliative in these first hours because the damage can not be calculated yet.

00:28So far, the official information speaks of 13 dead.

00:32Of the 13 dead, 11 have been identified.

00:361,300 people have been evacuated.

00:40And it is desperately sought at this time to Pilar and Delfina Hecker, 4 and 1 year old,

00:47who were passed hand in hand by their parents, Marina and Andrés,

00:52who traveled in a car, in a Gol Trend, on the night of the disaster.

00:56Rubén Salazar, who drove a red postal service truck,

01:00who even a recent witness, who picked up Alejandro Pueblas,

01:04said he saw her the moment she began to complicate due to the force of the current.

01:09It is the story that at this time moves beyond all this disaster that we are seeing.

01:15We insist incalculable. These are exclusive images of our drone.

01:20The water sought the natural waterways, the channels that nature always had,

01:27where man rectified, clogged, built, filled.

01:33But when so much water falls, in a very short time, nature does its job

01:37and the water seeks the exit where it always came out.

01:40Among them, Guille, these natural channels, worked precisely by the human hand,

01:46are the Arroyo Napostá and the Maldonado Canal,

01:49which is precisely Bahía Blanca, from the point of view of the water,

01:53is in the lower basin of these two great, let's say, forms of water flow,

01:59towards what is the sea.

02:01And as it is so low, there are even studies of the CONICET of 2012,

02:07which show that there are really complications regarding this,

02:11when there are heavy rains.

02:13Why? Because it is much lower and because, in addition,

02:16in the areas where, for example, there are streets that are not paved,

02:20that sediment is falling, it is reaching, let's say, the center of the city

02:26and what does it do? It covers all the drains of the city,

02:30which complicates, and well, obviously this could have been one of the causes,

02:34but surely it has been a multi-cause.

02:36There it was clearly seen in the previous image,

02:38how the street had become the natural cause,

02:41which had been, at the time, obviously, where the water came down.

02:44Already in an image like this, the red truck has been located,

02:48where, at the time, Marina and Andrés gave the four-year-old

02:51sisters Pilar and Delfina to Rubén Salazar,

02:54the driver of the red truck, of the red van,

02:59which provides services for a mail company.

03:02Salazar had gone to Bahía Blanca to make the BTB.

03:05He came across this situation, a truck driver said,

03:08I saw that the red truck began to have problems,

03:11and I stepped back, I was in front of him,

03:13he did not see the girls, but he assures that a truck driver

03:16did see them on the truck, and what we know,

03:19from what Mariana told, Hecker, the girl's aunt,

03:23in an image like this, aerial, the truck was located

03:27in an area that is still inaccessible.

03:29Who knows, we can't see it, right? With the drone.

03:31Look, there are places that are inaccessible.

03:35You are seeing it in this aerial shot,

03:37that you can clearly observe reality,

03:40but there are places where you will not be able to get,

03:42not even walking.

03:44Route 3, for example, has many cuts,

03:48at kilometer 711, at 738 it is cut,

03:53because there are sinkholes, that is, it fell,

03:55the asphalt moved, and there, for example,

03:58at kilometer 712, a kind of bridge is being made,

04:01because we see that it is working in the place.

04:04At 222, it is passable until Empalme with Route 3,

04:08Route 33, impassable, Route 35, impassable,

04:12Route 228 too, and total cut at Route 222,

04:1629, 229.

04:18This situation gives us a dimension of what could have been experienced,

04:21and notice that this is not the algae moment,

04:23this is just the rest of what was left after the storm,

04:26but you see, an avenue, because in fact,

04:28you see the streetlights of the avenue,

04:30the water that covers the avenue from boat to boat,

04:34which clearly has a boulevard,

04:36which drags the cars and everything that is in its way,

04:40and for you to calculate what could have happened

04:42with Marina and Andrés.

04:44Look, there you see a white car,

04:46a white car, another block behind.

04:50Imagine that situation with the water passing above the windshield,

04:55and you opening the door with your four-year-old daughters,

04:59trying to find shelter,

05:01just so you, who are watching, can imagine the situation,

05:04without being able to see where the route is.

05:06Notice that there you are on a street,

05:08and you don't know where the street is.

05:10Imagine the same thing on a route,

05:12and you clearly see, in something higher,

05:14the possibility of saving your daughters.

05:16That's where they give Pilar and Adelphi to Salazar,

05:20looking for security.

05:22Imagine, in a current like this,

05:24how long you can stand without being dragged.

05:28Of course.

05:29He took her to her mother four kilometers away.

05:31And look, where does the water get to this man?

05:34A little higher than the knee.

05:35Imagine if it gets to his chest.

05:37Because if the family decided to give them,

05:39it's because it was obviously very high.

05:41Also taking into account, Guille,

05:43that they left the house precisely for this.

05:46They left Bahía Blanca to the other side.

05:49Trying to avoid the storm.

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