Algeciras deactivates the emergency after AEMET lifts all warnings

Algeciras returns to normal. The mayor, Jacinto Muñoz Madrid, first thing this Thursday, November 12, ordered the deactivation of the Municipal Emergency Plan (PEM), which was thus left without effect both at its level 0, the pre-emergency level, and in phase 1, which had been activated on the afternoon of Wednesday 11. The decision is taken because the weather has improved in the city and because the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) has lifted all the warnings that affected Algeciras. With the PEM deactivated, the operational and emergency services are no longer mobilized due to the storm.

The plan had been active since Wednesday. That day, the City Council launched it at midday in its phase 0 in response to the orange warning for winds and coastal phenomena and the yellow warning for rain, with gusts forecast of up to 120 kilometers per hour and up to sixty liters per square meter in twelve hours. That same day the parks, cemeteries and all municipal sports facilities were closed. In the afternoon the situation worsened and the mayor ordered it raised to level 1. The operational services focused on La Marina, where small pools of water occurred, and the Local Police began locating the owners of the vehicles parked in the area so that they would remove them preventively. The storm came from earlier: on Tuesday, November 10, the Junta de Andalucía had informed the City Council of the suspension of classes in all educational centers in the city for Wednesday 11. The mayor has thanked "the intense work that since yesterday the members of the different operational and emergency services have been carrying out to deal with the incidents left by the passage of storm Charles, and which fortunately were not serious." The City Council has not detailed in its statement whether the deactivation of the plan comes with any assessment of damage or of incidents recorded during the hours in which it was active.