The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónwill ask the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi), which met at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, to incorporate 5,000 military personnel to be added to the emergency tasks. for the consequences of the passage of the DANA in the province of Valencia.
This figure will be added to the 2,000 currently in place, bringing the total number to 7,000 Army personnelas reported by the Generalitat in a press release.
The request is made once from Emergencies have communicated that, after 72 hours of “intense diagnostic and early care work”, there is no longer any isolated population center and that the accesses are safe “with the messages of caution that have been sent to the population and to the volunteers, who are thanked for their invaluable collaboration”.
The president of the Generalitat has traveled this Saturday to different municipalities where he has checked that “the roads are already clear, the bridges are safe,” he said. and the logistical bases are operational”, so it is requested that the army be deployed “to its full extent”.
According to Mazón, “once we have managed to secure all the logistical points, guarantee the road access through all the routes and organize the distribution of volunteers, it is now safe to request an additional 5,000 military personnel.”
Similarly, the president condemns “looting and theft” and requests that “the full weight of the law” be applied to those responsible.