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H. Esteban
Valencia
Miércoles, 26 de febrero 2025, 14:50
The summary of the dana case, handled by the third court of Catarroja, includes complaints and testimonies from relatives who searched for their loved ones for hours, as well as previous conversations they had with many of the deceased. These communications occurred before the 20:11 message sent by Emergencies advising people to stay indoors, a warning that came too late. The cases are documented, and the magistrate investigating the incident has already noted in a ruling that lives could have been saved if actions had been taken differently. These are the cases of some individuals who had already died by the time the message reached their phones.
Around 7 p.m., he went down to the garage to get his car. He did so in pajamas and slippers. Some neighbors managed to take out their vehicles, but he, according to witnesses, remained on the garage exit ramp inside the car. The UME located the body on October 31.
N. and his wife went down to the garage around 6:15 p.m. They held onto a railing due to the incoming water. The wife held on, but her husband fainted and was swept away. The wife was rescued by neighbors eight hours later. N.'s body was found on October 31.
Around 8 p.m., they heard screams at home. E., who was a police officer, went down to the garage to help. A van, being swept away, broke the garage door, and water rushed in at high speed. E. did not make it out, and the next day his body was found in the garage along with other deceased individuals.
I.'s daughter called the caregiver at 7:10 p.m. to warn her that the Poyo ravine had overflowed. At that moment, the caregiver sent a video showing a trickle of water entering. Within minutes, the house flooded, and the caregiver called, screaming that I. had died and that she too was going to die. They told her to go up to the terrace. At 5 a.m. on October 30, I.'s daughter and her husband went to her mother's house and found the body. The caregiver survived.
L.'s daughter contacted him by phone at 7:30 p.m. She informed him of the flooding, and her father confirmed he was unaware of the severity of the flood, although there were already four inches of water in his house. The communication was cut off. L.'s daughter went to the ground floor where her father lived on Wednesday 30 and found his body sitting in the bathroom.
At 7 p.m., a neighbor told L. to go down to the garage to get the car, which a friend had lent him. Upon seeing the water, L. tried to walk up the ramp but slipped and was swept away by the force of the water. He was found on November 1 with his documents on him.
The body was found by his son around 2 a.m. on October 30. With the rising water, he tried to reach M.'s ground floor, who lived on the same street, but was stopped just thirty meters away. He hoped his mother had taken shelter on a staircase on the ground floor, from where she seemed to have fallen or fainted. M. was in pajamas, and her body was taken to Feria Valencia on October 31.
F. went down to the garage with another neighbor to get his vehicle. He did not return. The next morning, the UME transported the body found inside the vehicle, which matched that of his father.
J.'s daughter had a last communication with her father around 6:30 p.m. on October 29. A neighbor, in the evening, approached the residence and informed a brother-in-law of the complainant about J. L.'s death. The body was removed on October 31 without informing any family member.
At 7 p.m., he called his mother to prepare candles because it was going to rain heavily. They maintained continuous contact, and around 8 p.m., his mother informed him she couldn't open the door to the house. The next day, her husband went to the residence, and neighbors informed him they heard M. L. calling for help, but they couldn't do anything for her. They found his mother in the room.
At 7 p.m., the complainant was with her husband, her 4-year-old son, and her daughter at the bar they run in the town. At 7:40, the water began to rise significantly, and by 8 p.m., they decided to call for help. They were thrown a rope, which turned out to be short, and then a ladder was put up. The first to try to climb was H. S., the 11-year-old daughter, but the force of the water knocked the ladder down, and the girl was swept away. The father jumped into the water but couldn't reach her and had to hold onto a car to save his life. Once the water receded, the father set out to search for the girl with a photograph in hand. The body was found on the 30th in a shopping center in Massanassa.
R. called his brother around 6:30 p.m. to inform him that water was entering his home. The complainant told him to call 112, but from that moment, there was no further contact.
She called the police and reported her husband's disappearance. She is the mother of eight-year-old twins. On October 29, around 6:30 p.m., the four of them were watching TV when the power went out. The children looked out the window and saw that people were taking cars out of the garage across the street. A neighbor, in the building's WhatsApp group, said that cars needed to be removed from the garage. Her husband went down to basement 2 around 7 p.m. When the alarm sounded, he was no longer there. She received three calls from her husband, the last at 8:58 p.m. Her husband managed to get the car out of the garage but got stuck, and in one of the calls, he said he couldn't get out of the car either through the doors or the windows. When the neighbors could, they went with hammers to look for the car, but it was no longer there. The next morning, witnesses recounted that the man managed to get out of the car, but the water reached his mouth. He managed to grab onto a grille but was hit by debris carried by the water. The force of the flood swept him into a garage, where he was heard calling for help for 40 minutes.
He was with his wife on the street at 6 p.m. They spoke with their son to see where he was going to park the car because there was already water. At 6:40 p.m., when they reached their street, the water was up to their calves. The wife went upstairs, and the husband went to the garage. His sister-in-law - the deceased's sister - couldn't start her car either, and the water was already up to her hips. The sister-in-law made a call saying she couldn't find either her husband or her brother. The sister-in-law was pinned against the garage wall by the water, swallowed water, broke four ribs, and the water was halfway up her body. Cars were floating, and a neighbor assured her he had seen her husband and was going to help him. The sister-in-law managed to swim out. The complainant's brother and husband also managed to get out and climbed onto a car with other people. The vehicle moved, he grabbed onto some power cables, according to witnesses, and they threw him ropes. The man tied himself to a garage vent, and they even threw him a float. The man held on despite the water going over his head. Neighbors tied two ladders together with cable ties, but he couldn't reach them. Before being swept away by the water, he shouted his wife's name, and the message arrived while the husband was trying to save himself. On November 3, they were able to confirm the death.
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