Most of the parents on the island have anxiously experienced this Thursday's downpour on the island and, after the shower, many have sent their complaints to La Voz about the fact that classes had not been suspended in the face of the orange alert that was activated. One of the affected places has been the Santa María de los Volcanes de Nazaret school, known as Las Nazarenas, where waste from sewage and rainwater has flooded parts of the premises, as several parents have said, visibly upset by the situation.
"They have evacuated the laboratory, it could not be used" because of the water, says one of the secondary school students. Another mother, clearly outraged by the situation, called Radio Lanzarote to express her anger. "Civil Protection handed me the child," she said. According to her, members of this body had to go with a truck to "bail" water in the infant education area, from where they decided to take the children out. And until the exit, some were carried in the arms of the agents until they handed them over to their parents, to prevent them from passing through the layer of water that covered the ground.
"Before it rained and everything was filled with water, but after patiently enduring nine months of work it is even worse," complained this mother, referring to the work that was carried out on Gómez Ulla street. "What happens in Arrecife is shameful," she insisted, also criticizing that the administration had not agreed to suspend classes this Monday. "With the alert they recommend not leaving the house and, however, then they don't cancel schools," she criticizes.
From the Emergency Consortium, for his part, the spokesman Enrique Espinosa explained that "the problem" in the area of the Las Nazarenas school is not from rainwater, it is from sewage. It is a problem with the sewage outfall that would have happened even without water," he says.
In his opinion, that "sewage comes out in Las Nazarenas is bad luck" and is due to "a work that has not been completed correctly". The emergency spokesman has assured that this problem "will be solved over the next few days".
