The Valencian regional government (Generalitat Valenciana) ordered on Monday 19 October the lockdown of 145 municipalities on the southern coast of Valencia and in northern Alicante because of the rain from the cut-off low (DANA) Adam, according to EFE. The authorities asked the population, through warnings and an ES-Alert message, not to leave their homes, not to drive and not to go down to basements or garages. The red warning for rain on the southern coast of Valencia and northern Alicante remained in place until 10:00 that day, according to Orain, citing AEMET data.
Essential services were affected. According to the regional Education Department, cited by EFE, some 102,000 pupils were left without classes in 42 municipalities in Valencia and 25 in Alicante. Renfe kept the C1 (València-Gandia) and C2 (València-Moixent) Cercanías commuter lines suspended. The 112 emergency service handled 1,713 incidents related to the storm, 1,202 of them in Valencia, according to RTVC/EFE. In Oliva, Mayor Yolanda Pastor reported that about 2,000 people had been evacuated from seven campsites.
The regional minister for Emergencies, Juan Carlos Valderrama, announced after the meeting of the Cecopi emergency coordination centre that the lockdown was being lifted in the eight municipalities that still had it in place (Bellreguard, Piles, Miramar, Oliva, Daimús, Xàbia, Pego and Els Poblets). The Military Emergencies Unit (UME) was stood down and the emergency was downgraded to situation 1, with monitoring in La Safor and the Marina Alta. Two shelters remain open, in Xàbia and Oliva, according to RTVC/EFE.
On 19 October EFE counted three deaths in the Valencia region: a woman found on the ground floor of her home in Oliva, a 64-year-old man who died of a heart attack at a campsite in Oliva, according to the Government Delegation, and a woman who went into the sea in Sagunto. Vozpópuli raised the number of deaths from the storm to seven, including a body recovered in Menorca, without citing an official source for the total.
There is no consolidated official toll of victims or assessment of damage to infrastructure. Nor has it been specified when the Cercanías service was restored.
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- 3 muertos, 145 municipios confinados y rescates por las lluvias en la Comunidad Valenciana
- La Generalitat Valenciana levanta los confinamientos por la dana y se desmoviliza la UME
- La dana Adam mantiene la alerta roja por lluvias en Valencia y Alicante, antes de desplazarse a Cataluña
- La UME encuentra muerta a una mujer de 79 años en Oliva (Valencia) y eleva a tres las víctimas del temporal
- El paso de la dana Adam deja ya siete víctimas mortales tras el hallazgo de un cadáver en la costa de Menorca
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