“I don’t usually take lifts. Yesterday I don’t know why I gave the button.” This is how Ireen Welaskuz, a young 23 -year journalist MatridAlmost an hour in the capital of the capital is the beginning of his tragic imprisonment. It crossed 12, and lived with his parents and his brother, but at the time, Valaskuz, who was alone at the house, came to buy cheese to make the “Carbanara sauce”. For a few seconds from the journey to the second floor, there was a sharp space, everything was dark.
“I have broken the mobile lamp. I have a lot Place I really panic, I cried, “the young woman says, after she won, He was able to make two calls and it prevented him from spending hours That lift.
He called his father, and he could not communicate with him, and he called a neighbor, and he was able to report his situation before he lost the network firmly. From there, it was only expected: “I have been sitting, because I have seen in the movies you have to sit, it is safe. If the elevator falls. I made a ball there. I said: ‘Well, well, at least, at least I have a survival cheese?” “
They were reported in the daytime yesterday Hundreds of lifts are recovered across Spain Due to electric blackout. In Catalunya, firefighters participated in 570 announcements, mostly by 253 people were reported in the Yuscadi, and only in Santander, people were rescued in half a hundred lifts and Saragosa at the age of 30. In the Madrid community292 firefighters were made, mostly by the people who were trapped.
Technicians who patrol the streets
Fine Lift Company – around 60,000 lifts and Madrid only run up to 23,000 – it was a crazy day yesterday after the lights were out for 12: 33 hours. The fourth largest operator at the national level, a crisis group to determine how to face the situation.
“The main problem is, in the beginning, there is no way to communicate with us for those trapped in lifts because networks are falling,” says Fine Lift Spain’s general director Isigo Ekana. “Usually we have implemented all the 600 technicians we have across Spain to get that request from the people. They left their home.
Throughout the day, technicians moved through neighborhoods and municipalities across the country Embedded with police or firefighters and restores hundreds of misfortunes It was in a lifts at the time of darkness. According to Ekana, “three or four” bailouts were already done. On Tuesday, the work of technicians is relentless, but now focuses on repairing the broken lifts after the return of energy. Almost all incidents will be resolved in a few days.
Upgraded rescue team
As for Irene Velaskuvez, many people are not until the wait is affected. The call for his neighbors followed the Silence of Silence, in which his own neighbor handled the garage door, and could not open the electrical and open. After a while, he heard the shouting of the neighbors and the guard, and the other neighbors soon joined, including a firefighter.
The upgraded rescue team warned emergency, but for more than 45 minutes, the pain of the Valaskuce and the clastropia has already reached unbearable limits I pleaded with them to take it out. “I told them: ‘Look, please, try to open, because if firefighters want to come, they have already given me something,” says Valascuez. “There was a hole. If so, I don’t know what to say. It’s dwarf. I lied. In fact, they caught me at 4 meters high, they caught me. I could leave.”
At two and a half, firefighters arrived, and neighbors and Welaskuws reported that the rescue had already occurred. His father also arrived, he left his job, crossed the city half -city with his car in the absence of movement confusion and traffic lights. Lift does not work again when the light returnsIn the afternoon, but this Tuesday morning. “That is, the same thing,” Valasusvas considers, “I would have spent the night.”
