The Aragon Government has activated the emergency phase at level 1 of the Special Civil Protection Plan for adverse meteorological phenomena (Procifemar), as reported by the EFE agency, which have already caused about thirty incidents in municipalities of the Zaragoza region of Tarazona and Moncayo. The emergency is declared level 1 when the situation generated, or its foreseeable evolution, can be controlled with the means and resources assigned to the Procifemar. The strong storms have also caused the evacuation of about 400 people, most children who are in camp, from several points in northern Burgos.
“We are having notices of elevator graves, we have a flooded garage and several center shops have suffered flood damage,” explained Ana Calvo, councilor of Citizen Security of Tarazona, about 40 kilometers from Zaragoza, where municipal services are withdrawing the trees and branches fallen to leave the accesses to the city free and recover the mobility again. The neighbors have been forced to start shrinking water and clean the remains left by the strong currents.
As reported by the Aragon government, in about thirty incidents related to rains in the Tarazona region and Moncayo, including trees and water falls, garages, homes and shops. The State Meteorology Agency has updated the notices for this Saturday, which will be orange for persistent rains and hail of up to 2 centimeters in the province of Huesca, under Aragon and Ribera del Ebro, between midnight and 21.00, and for rains in Albarracín and Jiloca and Gúdar and Master between 11.00 and 21.00.
In addition, there is yellow alert for storms in the five villas, Albarracín and Jiloca, Gúdar and Maestrazgo and Iberian Zaragozana, between 11.00 and 9:00 p.m. These rains and storms could be accompanied locally of large hail and very strong wind gusts and, as the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation has warned, they could cause floods in ravines and channels. Given this situation, Civil Protection asks citizens to extreme self -protection measures against flooding, storms, rains, hail and strong wind.
Evacuated in Burgos
Some 400 people, most children who are camp Juan Navarro reports. The Civil Guard has coordinated rescue devices without special disorders beyond the way of moving to places and getting out of them, because vehicles, seeing the ground soaked, barely manage to advance. Two camps in the town of Nela have been transferred by agents of the Civil Guard, 186 in total between eight and 16 years beyond their monitors and caregivers, to the sports center of Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja, enabled for his break tonight.
Other evicted colonies had settled in Loma de Montija and there were 140 children between eight and 18 years. It is here where the land offers more difficulties in evacuation. The Civil Guard has placed families to conserve calm because minors are fine.
The Dana has also arrived in Pamplona at the time of the night, generating the suspension of events planned on the occasion of the Sanfermines such as the Toro de Fuego or the Verbena of the Antoniutti Park. This has been communicated by the City Council of Pamplona that, later, given the favorable evolution of the storm, it has decided to maintain both the fireworks that during the parties are launched at 23.00 and the concerts scheduled for the night.
