Júlia Rodríguez Maeso saw her life cut short after a tree fell on her when she was crossing a pedestrian crossing on Almagro Street in Madrid yesterday. The young woman, 23 years old and from Esparreguera (Barcelona), worked in the offices of the pharmaceutical company Novartis in the capital after graduating in Biomedicine from the University of Barcelona.
According to what she herself published on her public Linkedin profile, and after completing her internship at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Júlia's first stop in the capital was in Alcobendas, where she collaborated as an intern for six months at the industry company Evidenze Scientific Events. .
It was after that brief period that she made the leap, in March of this same year, as a Novartis Neuroscience Marketing Trainee, preceded by her great academic record, which includes the Third Prize Blanquerna promotes with the Plastic Oceans project.
The tree, fifteen meters high, with a perimeter of 188 centimeters and two tons in weight, collapsed due to strong gusts of wind, registered within the yellow warning of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) and which could exceed 80 km/h in the metropolitan area. In the last two years, the Green Evaluation and Review Service (Server) had reviewed this specimen, an elm, on two occasions due to its large size, specifically on May 25, 2023 and May 28, 2022. "It was a healthy tree and in neither of the two inspections any defect was detected", they have confirmed from the City Council.
As to whether this type of tree falling event can be prevented, experts recommend more pruning and shorter, younger specimens.
Tomorrow, Saturday, the storm Domingos will take over from the storm Ciarán and the strong gusts of wind, which have caused the death of the young woman in Madrid in addition to numerous material damages, will continue to mark the weekend in Spain, so extreme measures are requested caution.
