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| Local Police, Fire and other municipal services, prevented by the orange alert due to heavy rains | This special device will pay special attention to districts such as Espinardo, Beniaján, Sangonera la Seca, Cabezo de Torres, Churra, Gea and Truyols, Avileses, Alquerías, La Alberca, Torreagüera and Sangonera la VerdeThe City Council has prepared a special device after the warning of adverse orange level methodological phenomena for the next few hoursThis special device is made up of different municipal services such as the Local Police, Civil Protection, Fire, Traffic, Murcia Waters, Street Cleaning, Street Lighting and Parks and Gardens.The State Meteorological Agency has raised its warning of adverse methodological phenomena due to rains scheduled for Monday of up to 40 liters per square meter in one hour in Vega del Segura and in Campo de Cartagena and Mazarrón.In this way, a special Local Police device is activated to monitor and control the floodable areas of the municipality, which will be operational while these weather conditions last.The operating units of cities and districts will periodically review, in accordance with the advance of rainfall, all those places where there are risks due to accumulation of water or cuts of roads and streets due to the existence of boulevards or natural storm water passages.The agents, based on the experience in other episodes of rain, will establish different control points in boulevards, water courses and flood areas, paying special attention to Espinardo, Beniaján, Sangonera la Seca, Cabezo de Torres, Churra, Gea and Truyols , Avileses, Alquerías, La Alberca, Torreagüera and Sangonera la Verde as these are the most affected districts when it rains.What is intended with this plan is to intervene as quickly as possible and attend immediately to the requirements of the residents of the municipality to minimize the effects of possible heavy rains, establishing priority actions.The Local Police will be in charge of coordinating all the operations that it has and will deploy its troops in urban areas and districts to take the necessary measures to regulate and cut traffic, using fences and police tape.

Likewise, it is controlled that there are no incidents that endanger people and vehicles.It is also recommended not to park on boulevards or flood areas and not to cross or circulate on flooded roads or crossed by live boulevards.Firefighters are in charge, prioritizing the actions, to rescue those people and drivers who are trapped in a flooded area, to put out fires in power lines, drain the water and drain flooded basins.Civil Protection volunteers will form a checkpoint to collaborate with Local Police and Fire in those situations that are necessary.For their part, the Cleaning Services will work on the elimination of water bags and puddles by means of vacuuming machinery, placement of the displaced containers and cleaning of the dragging caused by the rain.The operators of the Park and Garden Service have already revised the large trees in those sensitive areas to anticipate possible branches falling and cleaned the leaves and scuppers located in the gardens.

In addition, sand has been collected as an initial shock measure to avoid waterlogging in the event of flooding.Emuasa has also carried out the programmed cleaning of 1,800 scuppers located in the urban area of ??Murcia and districts, specifically at critical points associated with flood zones in order to guarantee the correct evacuation of rainwater.In addition, the company has emptied storm tanks from the sanitation network and checking the condition of the bars and generators of the sewage and rainwater pumping of the sanitation network.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia