Toni was returning with his son Pablo from the dentist in his Honda CRV when he turned onto Calle Moralzarzal de Mirasierra while the big downpour fell this afternoon in the capital. As the vehicle slowly advanced, the water level rose. “The water has reached above the wheels & rdquor ;, he tells EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA from the same place where he has been forced to stop because the car engine did not respond.
“We have been stopped and little by little the water level has gone down, but the car still does not start and we have had to notify the crane. There is another car that has remained the same, trapped, with a wheel stuck in a sewer that seems to have burst,” says Toni, who reports that the firefighters had to deploy a boat because in a trough on the nearby Costa Brava street the water has covered at least one car and the fire truck. So far it seems that no life is in danger. “They were saying that a collector had exploded & rdquor ;.
The torrential rain that has fallen this afternoon in Madrid crossing the city from east to west from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. has caused numerous incidents throughout the region, causing flooding in Metro and Cercanías, flight diversions and traffic cuts on the A-2 and M-30.
Firefighters, both from the capital and from the community of Madrid, have had to go out to hundreds of performances. According to sources from Emergencies 112-Community of Madrid, between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., 271 files were processed due to the storm, the vast majority due to the creation of pools of water.
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