The Minister of Justice and Interior and head of Emergencies of the Generalitat ValencianaSalomé Pradas, stated this Thursday that I was unaware of the existence of the ES-Alert systemwith which Valencian citizens were warned of the dangers of DANA. The alert was sent at 8:12 p.m. twelve minutes after Pradas received a call from Hugo MoránSecretary of State for the Environment of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. In said call, Morán told him that he could not assure him that the Forata press would not overflow or break.
“At eight in the afternoon I received a call from the Secretary of State and he told me that he could not guarantee that the dam would not break. That’s when a technician informs us that there is a mechanism which is called ES-Alert”, Pradas explained in statements to À Punt. Furthermore, he stressed that the Generalitat made the decision to activate the alert once they received information about the danger of the reservoir breaking. 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 maintained. “We have taken every step based on the information we had on behalf of the Confederation and the Aemet. Without the information we could not act and what cannot be understood is that during the Cecopi meeting They will only send us emails“he complained.
“We received the email they sent us warning that the Magro river and then the Poyo, which is where we have had the most serious consequences, are going to overflow. when it was already overflowing the ravine,” the councilor said and added that the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation “is the one that has this information and has the meters.” She has also criticized that the Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, met with the mayors of the affected areas on the morning of Tuesday, October 29 and that after that meeting they did not transfer him “no alarming data”.