‘Everything is a lie’ has interviewed live Rafael Muñoz, a man who has gone through nine hours on a bridgesurrounded by water, until the emergency services were able to rescue him from the catastrophic situation that DANA has left in its wake.
”He caught me yesterday afternoon on the V-3 highway. We were first caught in a traffic jam that later turned into a collapse. There we had to abandon the vehicles because the flood was already coming. We had to try to walk along the highway to Valencia, but faced with the impossibility, try to reach the bridge where some of us managed to get there and were able to spend the night there, others did not manage to do so and had to make a living.”
Rafael explained that they were some 400 people trying to escape from DANA: ”We were able to access thanks to the help of a human chain that was made from the bridge itself and Civil Guard agents who took those images of us, we were in those conditions when they took us out to be able to climb the bridge. When I started walking we saw that the bridge was the only place we could reach. It grew in a matter of seconds, the water was up to our knees. “Either we went back and were isolated completely surrounded by water or we tried to get to the tunnel where everyone was.”
He also tells how complicated it was for them to climb the bridge: ”It was a muddy area, there is no direct highway access to the bridge. Due to the force of the current it was impossible to lift a foot to leave the highway and move to another surface, the moment you lifted a foot, the current carried you. Without help we wouldn’t have made it”.
And he details how hard those moments were: ”We were safe, It was long, cold, with fearbut we knew that the water was not going to reach there. The people we saw and heard were there for the same hours as us but in very screwed up conditions (…) It was a long night, seeing people and listening to people, we heard them constantly screaming for help.”
Source: www.cuatro.com
