The Ministry of Home Affairs is working with the Regional Government of Valencia to incorporate international aid into the recovery work in the regions flooded by the DANA

The Ministry of Home Affairs is managing the inclusion of experts and specific machinery in the recovery work taking place in the Valencian regions flooded by the DANA, once the Regional Government of Valencia has accepted the offers of support made by Morocco, Portugal and France.

Morocco's offer was one of the first to arrive after the floods that occurred on 29 October and, once accepted by the Valencian authorities, the Ministry of Home Affairs is now preparing to include 24 trucks and 70 Moroccan workers in the recovery work taking place in the area to support the efforts for removing and transporting sludge and waste.

As regards Portugal and France, once the Ministry of Home Affairs, at the request of the Regional Government of Valencia, mobilised the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) on 8 November, both countries provided various pieces of machinery and technical operators to assist with this work.

Once these proposals have been accepted by the Regional Government of Valencia, the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Emergencies at the Ministry of Home Affairs will manage the involvement of around 20 pumping machines of different types and capacities, seven excavators and backhoe loaders and two trucks provided by the Portuguese National Emergency and Civil Protection Command.

France, for its part, is providing a series of machines for loading and unloading sludge and waste and four super-heavy transport vehicles to move large quantities of cargo to the points where the material extracted from the villages flooded by the DANA will be destroyed.

The Directorate-General for Civil Protection at the Ministry of Home Affairs is currently analysing the technical viability of other offers of collaboration made by different European countries through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in order to, if appropriate, pass them on to the Regional Government of Valencia and, if these are accepted, manage their involvement in the recovery and reconstruction work in the areas flooded by the DANA.

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