During the afternoon of Thursday, August 16, Civil Protection has activated an emergency device to deal with the incidents caused by heavy rainfall that have occurred in our municipality and that have affected especially the urban case.
The services performed have been related to the fall of trees and branches, cuts of steps of ramblas, flooded subway, dragging stones on the road, lifting of sewer covers, flooded houses and flooding of flood areas (Tirol-Camilleri neighborhood and new College of La Cruz).
Even two with vehicles have been trapped in the underground passage of Avenida Juan Carlos I and in the ravine of La Santa.
The storms have discharged significant amounts of precipitation in a short space of time, which has led to this series of incidents.
These are some of the amounts that have been registered in our municipality:
37mm La Almazara del Río
32'5mm Aeroclub
30'2mm Totana AEMET
29mm Totana - La Ramblica
28mm Sales - Canal del Paretón
23'8mm Dam of the Paretón
22mm La Torreta
14'7mm Lebor
Given the forecast that the strong storms will continue to affect us during tomorrow, Friday, Civil Protection will remain activated before the possibility that you can repeat the episode today.
Source: Protección Civil de Totana