It rains and wet in Trigueros, Huelva. When the municipality was still trying to return to normality after the passage of Storm Bernard last week, which caused the death of one of its neighbors, Celine once again hit this point of the province with force, causing significant damage to homes, businesses and roads. .
It was the overflowing of the Palmares River that devastated everything in its path this morning, causing real panic among many of the local residents and leaving several people with symptoms of hypothermia and many others with anxiety attacks.
Two neighbors, a 47-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, had to be transferred to the Juan Ramón Jiménez hospital in the capital of Huelva for treatment, while a 12-year-old minor was assisted on site by the emergency services.
It was at one in the morning when Emergencies 112 began to register the first calls for help, as confirmed by the Department of the Presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, who has indicated that in the province of Huelva there have been around thirty incidents. , especially in Trigueros and Niebla.
It was in Trigueros where the members of the Provincial Fire Consortium, the Civil Guard and the team of the Condado-Campiña Critical Care and Emergency Units (DCCU) have had to work hard, since in this town some residents were trapped in their homes. who saw how the river water invaded their houses. The zodiacs have been the way to rescue citizens from their homes.
The river entered houses, flooded premises and garages, accumulated forming ponds in the road and caused street closures in the areas of Laguna del Torrejón and Palmares. The movement of trains between San Juan del Puerto and Niebla has also been affected. ADIF has stopped railway movement between San Juan del Puerto and Niebla due to the flooding that has occurred along the route.
On several roads in the province of Huelva, pools of water are observed in different sections. The flooding of the HU-3101, in the capital Huelva, stands out, where several passenger cars have been trapped and whose occupants have had to be rescued by Firefighters, although none of them have needed medical assistance. Operators continue working at this time on the road, which remains closed to traffic.
The A-472 highway is also closed to traffic between kilometers 47 (Niebla) and 61 (San Juan del Puerto) in both directions.
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) maintained the yellow warning for rain until 10:00 a.m. today, Monday, throughout the province of Huelva and in the Campiña and the Sierra Norte of Seville, due to accumulated rainfall of up to 15 liters in one hour and of 50 liters in 12 hours in the Huelva region of Andévalo and Condado.
According to Diario de Huelva, only in Trigueros during the early hours of yesterday did 120 mm accumulate, as well as in Gibraleón or Beas, where the record was 100 mm.
