The Canary Islands emergency device, coordinated by the General Directorate of Emergencies of the autonomous Executive, joins today, Thursday, the search for people who have been missing since October 29, when a DANA caused torrential rains, floods and inundations in several municipalities of Valencia.
This decision is made once the red alert and the alert in force in Valencia has ended due to heavy rains that forced the Canary Islands operation to retreat yesterday for security reasons and after verifying the good condition of the roads after the passage of the second storm, which allows the troops to carry out their work in good safety conditions.
After a meeting with the Advanced Command Post (ACP) of Valencia, in which the island contingent was congratulated for having completed all the work carried out in the towns of Alfafar and Massanassa, the Canary Islands troops will join a rescue and search unit for missing persons in which they will work together with the Valencia firefighters in a newly created sector, divided in turn into three subsectors, to locate people missing due to the effects of the DANA.
The search will be carried out in an interface area near the Alfafar industrial estate where there are undeveloped farms, right in the area where two underage brothers who had been missing since October 29 were located yesterday, Wednesday, November 13.
The search will be carried out on land with members of the Tenerife Firefighters Consortium, BRIFOR and EIRIF personnel, in an area full of mud and garbage and will have the support of the drone of the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) of the Government of the Canary Islands.
In addition, the health scenario changes with respect to previous days and, given the possibility of finding deceased, the device of the Canary Emergency Service (SUC) and the Canary Health Service (SCS) insisted on the need to use high protection masks together with the PPE.
The protocol to be executed in the event of the discovery of fatalities was also reviewed, which, together with the health prevention measures put in place in the previous days, seeks to guarantee prevention measures for the personnel sent from the islands. In this sense, the health team will accompany the Canary Islands deployment in these new works.
The emergency device sent by the Government of the Canary Islands to Valencia is composed of personnel from the fire brigades of Tenerife, Gran Canaria Lanzarote and Fuerteventura; Firefighters of La Oliva, Puerto del Rosario and Pájara; Emergency and Rescue Group (GES) and Forest Fire Intervention and Reinforcement Teams (EIRIF) of the Government of the Canary Islands; and the Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigades (BRIFOR) of the Cabildo de Tenerife, together with a doctor and two nurses from the SUC and the SCS.
