“There have even been tornadoes.” This is how the then council member Salome Pradas explained to Carlos Mazzone the situation of Aldana on October 29, 2024 when the council president arrived at the Emergency Coordination Center. All this despite the fact that Mazzone always maintained that he arrived at the Integrated Operations Coordination Center (SECOPI) meeting fully aware of the situation on the ground. However, the videos of Prada’s advisor, Marco Presa, once again refute the acting president. Presa, responsible for social networks in Salomé Pradas’ office, contributed to the cause through videos he had of that tragic day that left 229 people dead.
These are two files (the first is 1 minute and 28 seconds and the second is 1 minute and 10 seconds) that link very short video clips in portrait mode. The first file depicts Pradas’ steps through the morning and midday, from his arrival at the Iliana emergency center around 12:30 p.m., his visit to 112 in the same building, and his round-trip to Carlit, a town affected by the Dana floods.
They are small parts containing phrases that are spoken quickly. “I just landed,” said Deputy Director General for Emergency Situations, Jorge Suarez, when receiving Pradas and Regional Secretary Emilio Argüeso. Suarez cut short his vacation to rush back to the emergency center that day.
In Iliana, Pradas and Argueso were informed of the hydrological alert in the Magro River and forest firefighters were deployed. The pictures show the explanations that the two officials received about the service room phone 112. They then move on to the visit to Carlit by Salome Pradas and Emilio Argüeso. “I’ll go, we have a succubus now,” he said in conversation with firefighters at one point. “All the flooding that was there came here,” another firefighter across the river told him.
The second video links together images of the beginning of the Sekopi encounter. First, Jorge Suarez alludes to “the helicopter that enters in a very limited way to search for images,” perhaps in reference to Auteuil. In the next part, Alberto Martin Moratella, Director General of Emergencies, says: “Now, by groups, we are forecasting the means we have displaced.”
For his part, the chief inspector of the Regional Firefighters Union explains, in another video, that he was informed that “there are many people on the roofs,” perhaps also referring to Otel. Without understanding what area he is referring to, Basit explains: “The flood of the Magro River does not affect this area, and it is an urban area.” She also alludes to “rescue” because the situation is “complicated.”
The second batch of videos ends with Mazzone’s arrival at the emergency center and the conversation he had with the President of the Valencia Provincial Council, Vicente Mombo, and with Councilor Salome Pradas, among other situations that emerged around him. At that moment, Pradas informed Mazzone of the hurricanes she had witnessed firsthand during her morning round of visits.
The last parts correspond to Carlos Mazzone’s nightly appearance before the media.
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