A worker has died this Saturday when he was buried in a ditch where he worked in the Barcelona municipality of Cànoves i Samalús, in an area still affected by instabilities on the ground since the storm ‘Gloria’, two years ago. At about 12:47 a.m. on Saturday, the retaining wall of a three-meter-deep trench in which he was working collapsed. Eyewitnesses notified the Fire Department immediately. Until 6:00 p.m., this person, a worker who was digging a ditch, had not yet been rescued and the tasks to find her continued.
A three meter wall It has fallen on top of a worker and right now seven fire departments of the Generalitat are working to access this person for whom there is no further information, according to sources from the Fire Department to this newspaper. They explain that the fall of the wall occurred at a time when a “ditch” was being dug to waterproof this wall.
This January 22 marks two years since the ‘Gloria’ storm passed and several families from the municipality of Cànoves i Samalús, in Barcelona, they are still unable to live in their homes or do so out of fear. Fire sources say they do not know if the fall of this wall has been related to the ‘Gloria’ storm.
Its City Council of Cànoves i Samalús advised a dozen families to leave their homes after this extreme weather event. A year later, many are still unable to live in their homes or do so out of fear. According to the residents of the Ca l’Esmandia urbanization (who commissioned a study that shows that, with another similar episode, more houses could fall), the land would have to be stabilized. A work that would cost 1.5 million euros that the city council does not want to pay, denounce. The council alleges that it cannot do much more when it comes to “private farms”.