The councilor of Justice and Interior and responsible for Emergencies of the Valencian Generalitat ValencianaSalomé Pradas, has affirmed this Thursday that was unaware of the existence of the ES-Alert systemsystem, with which Valencian citizens were warned of the dangers of the DANA. The alert was sent at 20:12 pm, twelve minutes after Pradas received a call from Hugo MoránSecretary of State for the Environment at the Ministry of Ecological Transition. In that call, Morán told him that he could not assure him that the Forata press would not overflow or break.
“At eight o’clock in the evening I received the call from the Secretary of State and he told me that he could not assure me that the dam would not break. That is when a technician informed us that there was a mechanism called ES-Alert”, explained Pradas in declarations to À Punt. He also stressed that the Generalitat took the decision to activate the alert once they received the information about the danger of the reservoir bursting. verbally. It was a “unanimous” decision and “advised by the technicians”.
The councilor has also indicated that the ES-Alert system is a mechanism that is not regulated. “It is not in our regional plans. It is still a draft that is in the National Civil Protection Committee pending approval,” he said. “We have taken every step based on the information we had from the Confederation and the Aemet. Without the information we could not act and what cannot be understood that during the meeting of Cecopi they only sent us emails“he complained.
“The email sent to us warning us that the Magro river and then the Poyo, which is where we have had the most serious consequences, are going to overflow, we received it. when it was already overflowing the ravine,” said the councilor and added that the Hydrographic Confederation of the Jucar “is the one who has that information and who has meters”. He has also criticized that the delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, met with the mayors of the affected areas on the morning of Tuesday 29 October and that after that meeting did not move him “no alarming data”..