This Sunday, Civil Protection deactivated the alert phase of Pla Inuncat due to heavy rains due to improving weather conditions. The system remains on pre-alert for showers expected for the rest of Sunday in the Girona regions. Especially on the coast and pre-coastal. In the last 24 hours, the precipitation that required sending an ES alert to the telephone numbers of 14 municipalities in the Barcelona area recorded more than 100 liters in the regions of La Selva, Maresme and Vallès Oriental.
The Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya (SMC) reports that the most “intense” episode is already over, despite to the new front which will arrive in the coming hours. The municipalities most affected by the storm this Saturday were Sant Font de Campsentelles, which recorded 110 liters; Sils, with 98; Mollet del Vallès, where approximately 84 liters fell; or Badalona, whose town suffered flooding again five days after the previous deluge.
During the storm, the emergency number 112 received 261 calls, mainly in Barcelona (104) and Maresme (64). The bombers of the Generalitat They had to act on 120 reviewsfor the majority in the Northern Metropolitan Emergency Region (89), between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Among the force’s actions, troops were forced to evacuate a block of buildings in Granollers due to the “risk of collapse”. 26 people from eight houses were evacuated preventively. The firefighters received the alert around 1:25 p.m., after some work on one of the terraces which did not absorb water well and because of the possibility that the excessive weight could break several concrete beams.
Around 5:12 p.m., a notice was received after Water swept away a van during a flood on the Camí del Mig in Vilassar de Mar. Eight crews were mobilized to search for the vehicle, which was empty. Its owner was able to escape unscathed.
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