3 Nov, 2024 @ 20:14
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Watch: Red alert for rain is issued in Valencia as megaphones warn locals and recently arrived volunteers to get indoors and seek high ground

THIS is the moment locals and volunteers in Valencia were told to seek high ground on Sunday as yet another red warning was issued for rain.

Footage shared online showed how the alert was spread via megaphones on the streets as volunteers and residents were in the middle of the ongoing clean up.

The red alert in place on Sunday night

It comes after hundreds have already died this week due to historic flash floods caused by a DANA storm.

The message played through megaphones tells people to stay indoors and in homes that are above ground level.

It comes after thousands of people decided to travel to Valencia this bank holiday weekend to help with the mammoth clean up operation following one of the biggest disasters in recent memory.

The red alert is in place along the southern coast of Valencia and some inland areas.

According to state weather agency Aemet, up to 90mm of rainfall could fall per square metre.

The red warning, meaning there is an ‘extreme risk’ to life, was activated at 6pm and is in place until 11pm tonight.

Meanwhile the northern coast of Valencia and parts of Castellon are on an orange alert for rainfall over the same period.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
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He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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