Algeciras activates emergency level 1 and evacuates La Marina

Vehicles parked in the area around La Marina must be removed. The Local Police are locating their owners so that they move them as a precaution, after small pools of water have formed in the area that may increase in the coming hours. The mayor of Algeciras, Jacinto Muñoz Madrid, has ordered the activation of level 1 of the Municipal Emergency Plan given the worsening weather conditions in the city, according to the City Council. Operational services are already working in La Marina. The City Council asks the public to be cautious and that any incident be reported to the emergency telephone number 112. It has also indicated that it will continue to provide information on how the situation develops. The mayor and the deputy mayors Javier Vázquez Hueso and Álvaro Márquez, together with the delegated councillor Francisco Javier Arango, are on the ground supervising the situation.

The activation comes one day after the City Council announced the suspension of teaching activity in all the city's schools for this Wednesday, November 11. The Junta de Andalucía then informed the Council of that suspension, after activating operational situation 1 of the Andalusia Emergency Plan, as reported by the portal on Tuesday, November 10. The storm, the Charles depression, has affected the whole region. The San Roque City Council activated level 0 of its Municipal Emergency Plan at 21:00 on Tuesday, November 10, which it is maintaining until midnight this Wednesday, as this portal published on Wednesday, November 11.