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The technical means prepared by the consistory were limited to a small plow and a "rudimentary" device to spread 4,500 kg of salt, "which an operator was unlocking with the stick of a broom," explained the mayor of this formation, Gloria Martin
The councilor of the United Left-Greens, Gloria Martín, today criticized the lack of human and material means to deal with the snow storm that affected the municipality yesterday and which, among other incidents, resulted in a traffic cut on the road RM-11 (Lorca-Aguilas), several traffic accidents, almost twenty vehicles immobilized in the high Purias and two school buses trapped by snow in the high districts.
In the latter case, the students had to be rescued by their own parents and the buses took hours to be removed from the road with the help of tractors.
The municipal government team of the PP knew the forecast of the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) and the orange alert for accumulation of snow in the Guadalentín region.
However, the technical means prepared by the City Council were limited to a small snow plow and a "rudimentary" device to spread 4,500 kg of salt, "which an operator was unlocking with the stick of a broom," Martin explained.
The councilor of IU-Greens also referred to the complicated situation that the neighbors lived in places like Las Terreras or El Rincón, practically isolated by the impracticable state of the roads that give access to these places.
The mayor, who moved to the high districts alerted by the neighbors of the area, could see how several people had to walk under the snow, in the dark and with temperatures below zero, the six kilometers that separate La Paca and Las Terreras before the impossibility of returning to their homes by car.
"The situation was dantesca Martin explained, just a snowplow machine working on only one of the lanes of the RM-711 (Lorca-Caravaca) and C-9 (Lorca-Zarzadilla de Totana) roads while in the other accumulated several centimeters Snow, "he said.
The councilor of IU-Greens also recalled that the councilor of Emergencies, Juan Miguel Bayonas, recommended to citizens to keep informed through the official channels of the City.
However, neither his Facebook profile nor the municipal website provided timely information on the state of the roads and the cuts produced in them, which were only accessible to Twitter users thanks to the work of the workers Of the Municipal Emergency and Civil Protection Service of Lorca.
On the contrary, the netizens did have complied with information "on the adventures of the mayor, Francisco Jodar, at the International Tourism Fair, FITUR, held in Madrid," Martín said.
For all of this, IU-Greens has demanded that the PP municipal government team "learn from the mistakes made yesterday", and to expand human and material resources and the information that is offered to citizens before the alert that will continue, Less, until 22 hours today.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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