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About 30 troops are part of the special device, active during the weekend and today
About thirty personnel - between local police agents, maintenance brigades and volunteers of Civil Protection and Red Cross - integrate the special device, coordinated by the Department of Public Safety, Traffic and Emergencies of the City Council of Caravaca de la Cruz, to watch over For the security of the neighbors and to attend to the incidents provoked by the storm of rains that affects the municipality.
The tasks are mainly focused on the monitoring and cutting of traffic of roadways with ramblas or roadway detachments;
The signaling of socavones in rural roads and the bilge of water in several in commercial establishments.
"The device was activated on the morning of last Friday and continues operating during today's period, during which time they have collected between 120 and 140 liters per square meter, according to the latest data provided by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) "Said the councilor in charge of the area, Pedro Antonio Muñoz, who has made a balance of the actions carried out in the last few hours, together with local police, Sebastián Luis de Moya.
In the morning of today, the Local Police has cut the traffic on the road of La Encarnación, as it passes through the strait, due to the important flow of the river Quípar.
To this area, there are traffic cuts, by the exit of ramblas, on the roads of 'Los Molinos', 'El Llano' and 'La Represa'.
This morning traffic was restored on the Mayrena road, at the height of 'El Molino', after the removal of stones and earth by landslides.
On the road, which connects Caravaca de la Cruz and Moratalla, there has been another detachment, at the height of the place of 'The Caracolico'.
Traffic is allowed, but extreme caution must be circulated, as removal work is being carried out.
Over the weekend, both local police officers and civil protection volunteers have attended other emergencies, such as landslides and stones in the old road of Archivel or the road of Lorca, The hamlet of La Almudema.
It is worth mentioning the rescue of a driver with his vehicle that was trapped in the rambla of the Baladre, by which access to the urbanization of El Llano.
In this sense, Pedro Antonio Muñoz has stressed that all traffic routes with danger are duly marked and recalled that "it is necessary to respect at all times the indications of the Local Police and other emergency services to avoid unnecessary risks."
For his part, the captain Sebastian Luis de Moya has warned of the failure in several traffic lights of the urban helmet, also as a consequence of the rain, that at the moment they are being repaired.
'Given that the weather in this area of ​​the Region is forecasting, some of the Civil Protection volunteers from Caravaca have moved this morning to the municipalities of San Javier and Los Alcázares, where the situation is much more complicated ", Informed the Councilor for Citizen Security, Traffic and Emergencies in the Consistory caravaqueño.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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