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We took what we had at home, and now it's time to help. It's emotional, it gives you goosebumps,
There aren't enough firefighters, the shovels haven't arrived,
Paco Clemente, a 33-year-old pharmacist, told AFP as he helped clear mud from a friend's house There are almost certainly more people who have died because the water washed people away who had got out of their cars."
One survivor told the Telecinco TV channel The situation is unbelievable. It's a disaster and there is very little help."
Emilio Cuartero, a resident in the town of Masanasa, near Valencia, said We need machinery, cranes, so that the sites can be accessed. We need a lot of help. And bread and water,
Fortunately he’s been stabilised and we’ve spoken to him and we hope he recovers as soon as possible."
Isla Cristina’s mayor Jenaro Orta said This is a disaster. There are a lot of elderly people who don’t have medicine. There are children who don’t have food. We don’t have milk, we don’t have water. We have no access to anything,
a resident of Alfafar, one of the most affected towns in south Valencia, told state television station TVE I have been there all my life. All my memories are there. My parents lived there, … and now in one night, it is all gone.”
Speaking to the AP, Chiva resident Juan Vicente Perez said It’s the community itself that has to rally around and sort out provisions for everyone as they’ve had no help so far from the regional government,
Around a year’s worth of rain fell in a single day, and as you can tell, it’s had a devastating effect on the community. They’re still cut off – no electricity, no connection to any sort of power system here,
Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego said, reporting from Chiva In lieu of racing in Valencia, MotoGP will instead race for Valencia,
MotoGP said in a statement We're going from car to car looking for any petrol we can find,
said one firefighter who had travelled to Valencia from the southern region of Andalusia to assist rescue efforts, carrying a plastic tube and empty bottles to collect the petrol from the cars' tanks We are still waiting for people to come help us,
the TikToker wrote in the caption to her post on Thursday Nothing can come through, no food, nothing. The only thing that comes are the rescue trucks that can maybe bring a bit of food, but you need to walk 15-20 km (9-12 miles) to buy some bread,
said Rafael Lopez, 59, who lives in a neighbourhood next to Paiporta To Paiporta, to help,
answered a group of young men, walking briskly, when asked where they were headed, referring to one of the hardest-hit suburbs of the regional capital, Spain's third-biggest city It's amazing - thousands of people coming from Valencia, like a big corridor of people helping the victims of this incredible disaster,
he said, as he headed to help The disaster motivated me to come,
There is still a pile of cars in the industrial estate, mountains and mountains of cars,
Amparo Fort, mayor of the town of Chiva, told public radio RNE Many must be empty, but we are sure others are occupied,
There are people living with corpses at home. It’s very sad. We are organizing ourselves, but we are running out of everything,
