Castilla-La Mancha raises Meteocam to emergency in Albacete after the floods in Madrigueras

The Community Board of Castilla-La Mancha has elevated the Specific Plan for the Risk of Adverse Meteorological Phenomena (Meteocam) in the province of Albacete to Emergency Phase (Operational Situation 1) after the floods in Madrigueras (Albacete).

As reported by 112 through social networks, the escalation of the Plan responds to the activation of resources assigned to the plan that collaborate in recovery work in the town of Madrigueras, where dozens of incidents have been recorded during the afternoon-night of this Friday.

The emergency services have received dozens of calls about flooding in houses, basements, garages or premises and the Board has sent an ES-Alert at 7:36 p.m. in the La Manchuela region of Albacete and part of Manchuela in Cuenca in which it is recommended to avoid travel.

The Madrigueras councilor María Victoria Leal Utiel has reported that the flooding began at 6:00 p.m., when a storm began to fall. "It has rained a lot, the entire town has flooded," he says.

The councilor points out that the entire town is flooded with "half a meter of water", which has washed away cars and there are people trapped in facilities.

The Meteocam management has decided to raise this notice to level 1 in Albacete at 10:15 p.m. this Friday, thus expanding the activation of this Plan that is active throughout the region at level 0.

In total, since the activation of the plan, Albacete has recorded 170 of the 276 incidents that occurred until late in the afternoon in the autonomous community.

For the next few hours, until now, weather warnings from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) remain active in the region.