An emergency head ensures before the judge that he does not know why the firefighters retired on the day of the Dana | News from the Valencian Community
The explanation to one of the most unusual episodes of the Dana that on October 29 left 228 dead in Valencia will have to wait. An emergency chief of the Generalitat has declared Tuesday before the Judge of Catarroja (Valencia) who criminally investigates the flood, Nuria Ruiz Tobarra, who does not know why the day of the tragedy was ordered to remove the firefighters from the ravine of the Poyo, trigger for the flood, before 15.00 hours.
M. Roldán explained that the day of the flood mobilized the forest firefighters (which depend on the Valencia Diputación) at 12.48 hours to control the channels of the Poyo ravine as it passes through the Valencian municipalities of Picaña and Paiporta and the lean river. The decision was registered in the CAME, a kind of black box that reflects all relevant decisions.
And he has indicated that he did not know who gave the order to withdraw the troops, who stopped measuring the flow before 3 pm, as confirmed by the head of the Provincial Firefighters Consortium during the DANA, José Miguel Basset, already retired. Basset initially said that firefighters abandoned control of the channels to go to eat. Then, he apologized and framed the decision in the decline in flow.
