This is how this firefighter from Zaragoza shows the complicated operations in a garage in Valencia

The Aragonese team of more than 200 personnel from different units has been sent to Catarroja, a municipality eight kilometres from Valencia, to help with the clean-up and rescue of victims. The firefighters from the Provincial Council of Zaragoza are now focusing their work on a two-storey garage that was completely flooded and with one of the floors still inaccessible, as can be seen in a video released by the institution yesterday, Sunday.

The personnel deployed to that point have been sucking up water for more than twelve hours, and the work on November 3rd has focused on trying to empty the plant closest to the street. “This morning we had water up to the bonnet of the cars, and we have not found any victims, which was the task that we had been entrusted with,” explains the head of intervention for the DPZ firefighters, Florencio Pascual.

However, the tasks seem endless, and the second floor of the garage, the deepest, is completely flooded and with the two accesses blocked by water or piled-up cars. “We are also proceeding to do a more detailed search under the vehicles and in some of the corners,” continues the head of intervention, Florencio Pascual, who hopes to be able to access the second floor of the flooded parking garage during the afternoon of this Monday.

AN OPERATION OF MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE DISPLACED TO CATARROJA

The operation deployed by the Government of Aragon to work in Catarroja amounts to more than 200 people after the incorporation of 18 firefighters from the Provincial Council of Zaragoza and 24 local police officers from the City Councils of Zaragoza and Huesca, who are joined by a large machinery operation consisting of bilge pumps, loaders and crane trucks.

This operation involves firefighters from the three provincial councils of Aragon, local police from Zaragoza and Huesca City Councils, volunteers from Civil Protection and other groups, forestry brigades from Infoar, health personnel and farmers.