They have shored up the structures of the underground warehouses of the Utiel City Council and the Mutua de Chiva building
The work has been carried out by the Emergency and Disaster Rescue Unit of the Consortium, UREC.
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The work has been carried out by the Consortium’s Emergency and Disaster Rescue Unit, URECspecialized in scenarios landslides and that, for a week now, it has been carrying out emergency shoring work in commercial premises, private homes and buildings of various types throughout the province of Valencia, as reported by the Consortium.
The objective is to act at those points “where a urgent shoringin order to avoid further damage and preserve the property while waiting for it to undertake larger works.” All of this, in coordination with building technicians, he pointed out.
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In UtielUREC troops have carried out shoring work in the underground cellars on the ground floor of the Town Hall, dating back centuries. It is one of the “most important heritage elements of the town and an ethnological treasure that makes the municipality one of Spain’s benchmarks for this type of subsoil.”
Firefighters have removed part of a vault that was losing support in the counter-key and support. This is “very delicate work given the characteristics of the place.”
In the case of the building of the La Mutua Cultural Recreational Society, a historic building of chiva At the end of the 19th century, part of the walls that face the part of the ravine collapsed, as a result of the DANA.
This is a building “highly appreciated” by the residents of Chiva, in which the UREC troops have removed a brick pillar where there had been a loss of an important section and that entire part has been cleared.
Source: www.telecinco.es
