Pamplona (EFE) personal.
The State Meteorological Agency, which has activated the red alert for this reason, indicates on its Twitter account that the accumulation of precipitation, exceeding 100-150 mm in a few hours, has been able to cause serious impacts.
It was from 4 in the morning when the SOS Navarra emergency center began to receive calls coming mainly from Lesaka, Bera and Arano and from that hour the emergency devices have been deployed that have had to rescue two people who could not advance with their vehicles on the NA-4150 due to landslides.
Thus, according to sources from the Provincial Government have informed EFE, since 7:45 a.m. the NA-4016 highway, from kilometer 2, and the NA-4150, at kilometer 29, have been closed to traffic in both directions, very close to the muga with Gipuzkoa.
The Firemen have rescued, in the latter, two drivers. A person who was going to his work and who was assisted by the Goizueta volunteer firefighters and the driver of a bus, which was empty at the time, who rescued the Ertzaintza.
Personnel from the road maintenance center are working in the area to restore circulation as soon as possible. In urban centers, as they have pointed out, the work has focused on draining water, with no evidence of personal injury for the moment.
The Government of Navarra visits the area
In statements to the media, the Vice President of the Government of Navarra, Javier Remírez, explained that this episode of torrential rains, “which has lasted two hours, around sixty litres, has especially affected Bera” and has stressed that there have been no personal injuries.
As he has reported, all emergency protocols have been activated, the Bera Local Flood Risk Plan and work is being done in coordination with SOS Navarra. In this regard, she has valued the “permanent dialogue” between the local authorities and the General Directorate of the Interior and has stressed that all emergency resources have been mobilized.
The situation at this time of the morning is “normalized”, said the vice president, who has indicated that level 1 of the emergency plan has been activated, so it is the local authority, the mayor, who manages the situation.
In Bera, an information point has been activated for residents who may have been affected. The towns of this area of Navarra have a significant number of streams that cross urban centers, recalled Remírez, who highlighted the action carried out after the latest floods in one of these streams, an intervention that has worked since that “it has held up well, it has channeled the water”.
In this context, the vice-president has insisted on the importance of the fight against climate change and risk management, both in the face of floods and fires.
